Food Processing and Nutrition
The Food Processing and Nutrition research group develops nanotechnology-based solutions for building a healthier, trusty and sustainable future food system, optimising materials and processes throughout the entire food value chain to ensure authenticity and to bring tastier and safer food to consumers.
Research lines:
- Smart, active and edible food packaging solutions based in biomaterials and advanced coating technologies;
- Food personalisation enabled by using micro and nanoencapsulation, advanced processing/manufacturing and cellular agriculture technologies;
- Development of miniaturised, automated, and sensorised in vitro models for the assessment of food nanomaterials.
Projects
Publications
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Migration of Building Blocks, Additives, and Contaminants from Food Packaging Materials
In Otoni, C. Food Packaging Materials - Current Protocols, 2024Permeation of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Through Food Packaging Materials
In Otoni, C. Food Packaging Materials - Current Protocols, 2024Polymerenano-ZnO composites for food packaging
In Jacob, J.; Cacciotti, I.; Thomas, S. Nanostructured Materials for Food Packaging Applications., 2024Rhamnolipids: A biosurfactant for the development of lipid-based nanosystems for food applications
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND FOOD SAFETY, 2024Oleogels for Delivery and Protection of Bioactive Molecules
ISBN 978-3-031-46830-8, 2024Resveratrol-loaded octenyl succinic anhydride modified starch emulsions and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) microparticles: Cytotoxicity and antioxidant bioactivity assessment after in vitro digestion
Silva, P. M., Neto, M. D., Cerqueira, M. A., Rodriguez, I., Bourbon, A. I., Azevedo, A. G., Pastrana, L. M., Coimbra, M. A., Vicente, A. A., & Gonçalves, C. (2024). Resveratrol-loaded octenyl succinic anhydride modified starch emulsions and hydroxypr, 2024 -
Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Activity of Chitosan Nanoparticles against Listeria monocytogenes
POLYMERS, 2023Recent Advances in Cell-Based In Vitro Models to Recreate Human Intestinal Inflammation
ADVANCED SCIENCE, 2023Whey–pectin microcapsules improve the stability of grape marc phenolics during digestion
Journal of Food Science, 2023Chapter 13: Bioprinting as a fabrication method for cultivated meat
Cellular Agriculture (Elsevier, ISBN: 9780443187674), 2023Properties Of Glycerol Monostearate-Based Oleogels Enriched With Β-Carotene And Resveratrol
168608, 2023Recent advances in oral delivery systems of resveratrol: foreseeing their use in functional foods
FOOD & FUNCTION, 2023Bacteriophage Delivery Systems for Food Applications: Opportunities and Perspectives
VIRUSES-BASEL, 2023From mouth to gut: microfluidic in vitro simulation of human gastro-intestinal digestion and intestinal permeability
ANALYST, 2023Phytosterols and Other Sterols
9781119780045, 2023Adsorption properties and physical characterization of carrageenan/alginate macro and microspheres blended with flexible chain polymers
FOOD AND BIOPRODUCTS PROCESSING, 2023Edible alginate-based films as natural anti-SARS-CoV-2 barriers
EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS, 2023Electrosprayed hydroxypropyl methylcellulose microcapsules containing Rhus microphylla fruit extracts and their application in strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) preservation
LWT Volume 184, 15 July 2023, 115048, 2023Chapter 30 - Encapsulation of microalgae-based products for food and feed applications
Handbook of Food and Feed from Microalgae, Academic Press (Elsevier), 2023, Pages 371-393, ISBN 9780323991964, 2023Electrosprayed hydroxypropyl methylcellulose microcapsules containing Rhus microphylla fruit extracts and their application in strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa) preservation
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2023Food additive manufacturing with lipid-based inks: Evaluation of phytosterol-lecithin oleogels
JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING, 2023Paving the way forward: Escherichia coli bacteriophages in a One Health approach
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN MICROBIOLOGY, 2023Combating Climate Change with Phytoremediation. Is It Possible?
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2022). ICoWEFS 2022. Springer, Cham., 2023Levofloxacin‐Loaded Microneedles Produced Using 3D‐Printed Molds for Klebsiella Pneumoniae Biofilm Control
Advanced Therapeutics, 2023 -
Natural biopolymer scaffolds for bacteriophage delivery in the medical field
In Advances in biomedical polymers and composites: Materials and applications, 1st Edition (September 14, 2022), Eds. Kunal Pal, Sarika Verma, Pallab Datta, Ananya Barui, S.A.R. Hashmi, Avanish Srivastava, p: 760-786, Elsevier 2022, 2022Strategies for the reduction of sugar in food products
Academic Press, 2022Antibiofilm Efficacy of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pbunavirus vB_PaeM-SMS29 Loaded onto Dissolving Polyvinyl Alcohol Microneedles
VIRUSES-BASEL, 2022Advances in Microfluidics for the Implementation of Liquid Biopsy in Clinical Routine
Microfluidics and Biosensors in Cancer Research pp 553–590, 2022Effectiveness and Release Studies of Bioactive Systems
Releasing Systems in Active Food Packaging. Food Bioactive Ingredients. Springer, 2022Emitters of Essential Oils
Releasing Systems in Active Food Packaging. Food Bioactive Ingredients., 2022Food Structure Engineering and Design for Improved Nutrition, Health and Well-Being
Academic Press, 2022Gelation Behavior and Stability of Multicomponent Sterol-Based Oleogels
GELS, 2022Gelation Behavior and the Stability of Multicomponent Sterol-Based Oleogels
Gels, 2022Hyaluronic acid-amphotericin B nanocomplexes: a promising anti-leishmanial drug delivery system
BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE, 2022Low energy nanoemulsions as carriers of thyme and lemon balm essential oils
LWT-FOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 2022Nano and Microengineered Structures for Enhanced Stability and Controlled Release of Bioactive Compounds
1571-0297 , 2022Nutrition, health and well-being in the world: The role of food structure design
Academic Press, 2022Water-in-oleogel emulsion based on gamma-oryzanol and phytosterol mixtures: Challenges and its potential use for the delivery of bioactives
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OIL CHEMISTS SOCIETY , 2022Assessment of the Antibiofilm Performance of Chitosan-Based Surfaces in Marine Environments
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 2022Immobilization of fibrinolytic protease from Mucor subtilissimus UCP 1262 in magnetic nanoparticles
PROTEIN EXPRESSION AND PURIFICATION, 2022Partitioning of small hydrophobic molecules into polydimethylsiloxane in microfluidic analytical device
Micromachines, 2022 -
Food-grade hydroxypropyl methylcellulose-based formulations for electrohydrodynamic processing: Part I & ndash; Role of solution parameters on fibre and particle production
FOOD HYDROCOLLOIDS, 2021Characterization of PHBV films loaded with FO1 bacteriophage using polyvinyl alcohol-based nanofibers and coatings: A comparative study
INNOVATIVE FOOD SCIENCE & EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, 2021PHBV films loaded with FO1 bacteriophage using polyvinyl alcohol-based nanofibers and coatings: a comparative study
Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, 69:102646, 2021Rhamnolipids–based nanostructured lipid carriers: Effect of lipid phase on physicochemical properties and stability
Food Chemistry, 344, art. no. 128670, 2021Nano spray drying of food ingredients; materials, processing and applications
TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, 2021The clinical path to deliver encapsulated phages and lysins
FEMS MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS, 2021Development of Chitosan-Based Surfaces to Prevent Single- and Dual-Species Biofilms of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa
MOLECULES, 2021Oleogel-Based Systems for the Delivery of Bioactive Compounds in Foods
GELS, 2021Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO 1 In Vitro Time–Kill Kinetics Using Single Phages and Phage Formulations—Modulating Death, Adaptation, and Resistance
Antibiotics, 2021The Effect of Molecular Weight on the Antimicrobial Activity of Chitosan from Loligo opalescens for Food Packaging Applications
MARINE DRUGS, 2021Editorial: Structured Edible Oil: Towards a New Generation of Fat Mimetics
FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, 2021Faster monitoring of the invasive alien species (IAS) Dreissena polymorpha in river basins through isothermal amplification
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 2021Galvanic oxidation of bimetallic Zn-Fe nanoparticles for oxygen scavenging
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE, 2021A Review on the Role of Food-Derived Bioactive Molecules and the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis in Satiety Regulation
NUTRIENTS, 2021Fabrication of Quasi-2D Shape-Tailored Microparticles using Wettability Contrast-Based Platforms
Advanced Materials, 2021Polymeric nanoparticles as oral delivery systems for a grape pomace extract towards the improvement of biological activities
Materials Science and Engineering C, 2021Electrohydrodynamic processing for the production of zein-based microstructures and nanostructures
CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE, 2021How additive manufacturing can boost the bioactivity of baked functional foods
JOURNAL OF FOOD ENGINEERING, 2021Modulating process parameters to change physicalproperties of bigels for food applications
FOOSTR 100173, 2021 -
Polymeric nanoparticles as oral delivery systems for a grape pomace extract towards the improvement of biological activities
Materials Science&Engineering C, 20203D printed functional cookies fortified with Arthrospira platensis: Evaluation of its antioxidant potential and physical-chemical characterization
FOOD HYDROCOLLOIDS, 2020Edible films and coatings as carriers of nano and microencapsulated ingredients
In: Application of nano/microencapsulated ingredients in food products, Jafari S.M (Ed). Academic Press, (ISBN: 9780128165195) (Chapter 5) 2020, pp. 211-273, 2020Lactoferrin-based nanoemulsions to improve the physical and chemical stability of omega-3 fatty acids
FOOD & FUNCTION, 2020