This book collects the conference proceedings of the 26th Workshop on the Developments in the Italian PhD Research on Food Science Technology and Biotechnology, held at the UniASTISS Polo Universitario Asti Studi Superiori “Rita Levi Montalcini” from 19th to 21st September 2022. The goal of the conference is to gather PhD students from all Italian universities of whom projects deal with food-related topics to define the state of the art of the Italian academic research in this area of study.