"We merge Food Chemistry, Human Nutrition and Applied Botany"
Food science in progress
Department of Food and Drug
LS9 is operative within the Food and Drug Department of the University of Parma, which gathers an interdisciplinary pool of experts in food and pharmaceutical technology, microbiology, food chemistry, pharmacology, nutrition, organic chemistry, agronomy and economy, with a true “from the lab to the world” approach.
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The group can rely on a variety of laboratories, equipped with an array of instruments including HPLC-MSn, NMR, GC-MS. Most universities have similar capacities, our advantage is that we work together. Actually.
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LS9 researchers are involved in a number of different interdisciplinary projects. The detection, quantification, stability and the bioactivity evaluation of plant secondary metabolites are usually performed both in plant matrices, foods, concentrated extracts and biological fluids of human and animal origin.
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News from the Lab
Urolithins are bioactive ellagitannin-derived metabolites showing a wide phenotypic...
Cereal-based products, like breads, are a vehicle for bioactive compounds, including...
Food and beverage consumption has a great impact on the environment, although there is a...
As long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) of the n-3 series are critically important for human...
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are mostly caused by uropathogenic Escherichia...
To summarize available evidence on the association between dietary flavonoid as well as...
Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) is a small organic molecule, derived from the intestinal...
Consumption of products rich in flavan-3-ols, such as tea and cocoa, has been associated...
The contribution of the gut microbiota to the metabolism of catechins and...
The high number of negative opinions from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) to...