Climate smart food and nutrition
Abbreviation
FOODNUTRI
Infrastructure description
FOODNUTRI focuses in the scientific breakthrough needed to build a sustainable food system ensuring healthy nutrition, continuous food security, and excellent food safety. FOODNUTRI upgrades domestic raw materials for production of foods and food ingredients by exploiting innovative food processing technologies and provides know-how including tools and methods on food characteristics, physiological responses to food, consumer acceptance, food consumption and nutrient intake of populations as well as environmental and health impacts.
Scientific description
The core infrastructures of FOODNUTRI at University of Turku include the infrastructure for Food Processing (Platform 1), Food Characterization (Platform 2), Sensory and Consumer Research (Platform 5). The facilities and expertise at University of Turku include the state of art analytical instruments including high resolution QTOF mass spectrometry, gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, and various chromatographic instrumentations, modern sensory research laboratory as well as analytical methods based on these instruments. Food grade instruments, sensory laboratories and methodologies are available for food development research to support development of tasty, healthy, and sustainable foods.
Start of activity
2022
Responsible organisation
University of Turku
Keywords
climate change, consumer studies, food characterization, food safety, food security, nutrition, physiological response, processing, sensory qualities, sustainable food system
Research infrastructure services
Food analysis and food development (FOODNUTRI)
Other information
Fields of science
NATURAL SCIENCES, ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES