Multiscale structure of food materials: how to look at a complex challenge with complementary tools
Welcome to a workshop with the Northern Lights on Food community
The objective of this workshop is to present existing and new infrastructure available at KTH and SLU for the understanding of food complex materials (including foodomics, hydrodynamic processing, nanoIR and NMR, microscopy), and to bridge the gap with the information provided by scattering techniques within the Northern Lights on Food community. We believe that bringing together complementary expertise and infrastructure within soft food materials is fundamental to contribute to the current revolution of the food system.
Time: Tue 2023-09-19 10.00 - 16.00
Location: KTH AlbaNova University Centre and Main Campus Valhallavägen
Participating: KTH, SLU, LINXS (Lund Institute for X-ray science)
Food materials at all production stages, from the original raw materials through the final products ingested by consumers, are complex assemblies of biopolymers and small metabolites, in terms of their molecular composition and multiscale organization from the molecular to the macroscopic level. Moreover, all steps in the preparation of the food products, from the raw materials, extraction of suitable ingredients, processing and storage, affect the sensory properties of the food we ingest as consumers, the bioavailability of the nutrients through the gastrointestinal tract, and the derived health benefits. Therefore, a combination of multiple analytical approaches is needed to understand the composition and structural properties of food materials.
Agenda
10:00 -12:00 Morning session. AlbaNova University Centre
- Presentation of the workshop
- Short presentations: Molecular understanding of food components through foodomic approaches
- Visit to the new infrastructure for food chemistry and Foodomics at KTH
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 13:00 Walk to KTH main Campus
13:00 – 16:00 Afternoon session. KTH Main Campus Valhallavägen
- Short presentations: Determination of material properties and multiscale structure of complex food assemblies
- Visit to 2MILab facilities, department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, and the KTH node of the Swedish NMR centre.