麻豆原创

Our Food and Human Nutrition PhD and MPhil seek to understand how food affects human health and wellbeing.

Overview

Within your research, you'll explore how nutrition affects:

• healthy ageing
• food security
• sensory quality
• international nutrition
• personalised nutrition.

Our research is multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary. We have many expert research areas in the School. We also work across the University, through the Human Nutrition Research Centre.

Our research themes include:

Health benefits of consuming selected foods and food types. Our research looks at cardiovascular health, cancer, sarcopenia and cell damage. We'll explore:

• whole grains
• carrots
• nitrate-rich vegetables
• food supplements

Elucidation of roles of fat-soluble vitamins in health and disease. We examine:

• vitamins A and D
• modelling and understanding sources
• metabolism in humans and farm animals

Medicinal properties of herbs and plant extracts. We explore the effects on:

• cognitive performance
• pain
• mood
• well-being
• dementia

Effects of production/processing factors on food composition & sensory quality. We look at:

• effects of organic/conventional production
• supply chain temperatures
• varieties/breeds