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Food Solutions
NEW TEAM: Nanobiomaterials spiced with biomaterial science
VTT's Nanobiomaterials team leader Markus Linder was nominated as research professor in the field of Functional Materials.
VTT STRENGTHENS COMPETENCE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: New team has started
Sustainability Assessment Team has a long time expertise in applying life-cycle assessment (LCA) of different industrial systems.
Health Effects
NEW RESULTS: Elevated mucosal lipids characterize irritable bowel syndrome
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is the most common diagnosis in gastroenterology. The syndrome is classified as functional, and no biological marker exists for IBS.
NEW RESEARCH RESULTS: The gut microbiota modulates host energy and lipid metabolism
The total number of bacteria in the adult human exceeds the total number of human cells by about 10 fold, and the vast majority live in the human intestine.
Consumer Behaviour
VTT has drawn up a roadmap for food and nutrition solutions
Actors of VTT’s innovation programme NUTRITECH have produced a roadmap for new food and nutrition solutions and evaluated the effects of the needs for change on product concepts and business opportunities. The results of the roadmap will challenge the players in the food and nutrition industry to collaborate with new industries and technology sectors.
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NEW PUBLICATION: Perception of health claims among Nordic consumers
In the study of Grunert et al. (2009), the health claim perceptions of 4,612 consumers in Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden were studied. Information given in health claims was studied by dividing health claim into components and combining these components in various ways. Claims were constructed by combining different active ingredients (familiar / unfamiliar), type of claim (combination of information about ingredient, physiological function and health benefit) and other claim characteristics.