Food Materials and
Structures – CoRE Platform 1

The vision of the Riddet Institute, Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) research programme is “Future Foods – Inspired by Nature”. This means learning from the structures inherent in natural foods and how foods are digested and assimilated, to enable the creation of high-value healthy foods with novel structures.

This platform explores fundamental aspects of the assembly of the complex, hierarchical structures that have evolved in natural foods.

These studies inform the modification of these structures during food-processing operations, and the behaviour of both natural and processed structures in the environments of the human oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract (GIT). There will be a focus on quantifying the relationship between structural attributes and product functionality, in particular the dynamic aspects of release of nutrients and bioactive compounds.

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Food Materials and Structures CoRE Platform

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