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The origin of foods plays an important role in their metabolome (the set of compounds present as products of metabolic events). The compositions of food plants are inevitably determined by a number of inherent ...

Sea buckthorn (Hippophaë rhamnoides) and currants (Ribes spp.) are rich sources of flavonoids and other polyphenols. Both proanthocyanidins (PAs) in sea buckthorn and flavonol glycosides (FGs) in currant leaves ...

Consumers’ increasing awareness of healthiness and sustainability of food presents a great challenge to food industry to develop healthier, biologically active and sustainable food products. Bioactive peptides derived ...

Food lipids are mainly found in the form of triacylglycerols (TAG) containing three structurally identical or different fatty acids. The positional distribution of fatty acids is under genetic control. In TAG biosynthesis, ...

Mushrooms have been part of the human diet for many millennia. They represent an evolutionarily old and large group of edible organisms. Finnish people have a long history of picking and using wild mushrooms for food ...

In recent years, there have been studies that show a correlation between the hyperactivity of children and use of artificial food additives, including colorants. This has, in part, led to preference of natural products ...

Plants, including cereal plants, defend themselves against abiotic and biotic stress factors by various means. In addition to physical barriers there are a number of chemical defense systems in order to protect growing ...

The human gut is home to an enormous number of microbes that play an important role in host physiology, metabolism, nutrition and immune function. Deviations in initial human gut microbiota development have ...

The central goal of grain cultivation is the production of high-quality food or feed-related raw materials for the processing industry. Management of Fusarium mycotoxins in Finnish cereal grains have a direct ...