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.