bkirkhus

Profile

Photo: 

Job title: 

Senior scientist

Eurocaroten role: 

Management Committee

First name: 

Bente

Last name: 

Kirkhus

Short research description: 

Main research interest in food and health with focus on fat and fat soluble compounds in edible oils, cereals, vegetables, meat and fish. Current research is focused on studying the digestion of foods and food emulsions, and how processing may increase bioaccessibility of nutrients, e.g. carotenoids in tomato and green vegetables. Current research also includes studies of lipid peroxidation during digestion.

Personal webpage: 

http://www.nofima.no

Techniques routinely used: 

High pressure homogenization, in vitro digestion and gut fermentation, chemical analysis (omics)

Instrumentation/Facilities: 

Processing equipment, HPLC, GC, MS, NMR and spectroscopy

Country: 

Norway

City: 

Oslo

Institution: 

Nofima AS

Department: 

Food and Health

Institution website: 

http://www.nofima.no

Address: 

Osloveien 1
P.O. Box 210
NO 1431 Ås

Zip Code: 

NO 1431

Phone: 

+47 90036851

Matrix: 

Foods

Plants

Gender: 

Female

WG option 1: 

WG2

WG option 2: 

WG3

Scientific approach: 

Applied

Areas: 

Agro-food

Health

Nutrition

Other keywords: 

Bioavailability

Design

Functional Foods

Industry

Processing

Stability

STMS hosting: 

Any

Meetings hosting: 

No