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Nutrition and Health
Focusing on food and healthy diet research to foster a critical understanding of nutritional intake of population groups (nutritional epidemiology) and generate new knowledge and innovation solutions to develop/improve sustainable, multifunctional foods/delivery systems for human health and disease prevention, implicating citizens in this knowledge construction. Plant-based foods, algae, microbes’ functional role including next-generation probiotics are studied using In vitro models: simulated digestion, human cell models and microbiome, and human intervention trials.