Nutritional Value

	Rita Batista
	Researcher
	rita.batista@insa.min-saude.pt
	Departamento de Alimentação e Nutrição- Unidade de Investigação e Desenvolvimento

Current members
Elsa Vasco	Research Technician
Maria da Graça Leitão Dias	Research Technician
Ana Cristina Ferraz Flores	Research Technician
Carla Motta	Research

Collaborators

Current Projects

Past Projects

2016-2020 | EUROCAROTEN, European network to advance carotenoid research and applications in agro-food and health (COST, European Cooperation in Science & Technology, CA15136)

2015-2016 | O Inquérito Alimentar Nacional e de Atividade Física (Programa EEA Grants – Iniciativas em Saúde Pública)

2014-2015 | Re-coding of the food descriptors of EFSA Chemical Occurrence Database and Food Consumtion Database entries according to the FoodEx2 food classification and description system (NP/EFSA/DATA/2014/23)

2015-2016 | O Inquérito Alimentar Nacional e de Atividade Física (Programa EEA Grants – Iniciativas em Saúde Pública)

Main selected publications

2022

ALVITO P, Assunção RM, Bajard L, Martins C Mengelers, MJB, Mol H, Namorado S, van den Brand AD, Vasco E, Viegas S, Silva MJ (2022) Current Advances, Research Needs and Gaps in Mycotoxins Biomonitoring under the HBM4EU—Lessons Learned and Future Trends. Toxins, 14 826. doi: 10.3390/toxins14120826

FURTADO R, Coelho A, Morais M, Leitão AL, Saraiva M, Correia CB, Batista R (2022) Comparison of ISO 6579–1, VIDAS Easy SLM, and SureFast® Salmonella ONE Real-time PCR, for Salmonella Detection in Different Groups of Foodstuffs. Food Analytical Methods, 15 276-284. doi: 10.1007/s12161-021-02114-0

VASCO E, Dias MG, Oliveira L (2022) The first harmonised total diet study in Portugal: Nitrate occurrence and exposure assessment. (2022) Food Chemistry, 392 133152. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2022.133152

VILLACÍS-CHIRIBOGA J, Jacobs G, van Camp J, Elst K, Ruales J, Marcillo-Parra V, Böhm V, Bunea A, Cirlini M, Craft N, de Meulenaer B, Dias MG, Lazzarino G, Meléndez-Martínez AJ, Versloot P, Mercadante A Z, Olmedilla-Alonso B, Ortiz-Ulloa J, Stinco CM, Voorspoels S (2022) Interlaboratory exercise for the analysis of carotenoids and related compounds in dried mango fruit (Mangifera indica L.). Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 104616. doi: 10.1016/J.JFCA.2022.104616

JIMENEZ D, Lobo M, Motta C, Castanheira I, Sammán N (2022). Nutritional, technological, and sensory changes induced by different drying methods on purees made with Andean grains. Journal of Food Processing and Preservation, July, 1–9.

MOTTA C, Castanheira I, Matos AS, Nascimento AC, Assunção R, Martins C, Alvito P (2022) Effect of Cooking on the Content and Bioaccessibility of Minerals in Pseudocereals. La ValSe-Food 2022, 17. doi: 10.3390/blsf2022017017

Other selected publications

VASCO E, Dias MG, Oliveira L (2020) Avaliação da exposição a contaminantes com base num estudo de dieta total conduzido em Portugal. Boletim Epidemiológico Observações, Volume 9, Número 26 (janeiro-abril), ISSN: 0874-2928 | ESSN: 2183-8873.

TEIXEIRA S, Luis I, Oliveira M, Abreu I, Batista R (2019) Goji berries superfood – contributions for the characterisation of proteome and IgE-binding proteins. Food Agric Immunol. 30(1):262-280. DOI: 10.1080/09540105.2019.1577364

BATISTA R, Fonseca C, Planchon S, Negrão S, Renaut J, Oliveira MM (2017) Environmental stress is the major cause of transcriptomic and proteomic changes in GM and non-GM plants. Scientific Reports. 7: 10624. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-09646-8

FONSECA C, Planchon S, Serra T, Chander S, Saibo NJM, Renaut J, Oliveira MM, Batista R (2015) In vitro culture may be the major contributing factor for transgenic versus nontransgenic proteomic plant differences. Proteomics 15(1): 124-34. DOI: 10.1002/pmic.201400018

MANDIĆ AI, Meléndez-Martínez AJ, Bantis F, Böhm V, Borge GIA, Brnčić M, Bysted A, Cano MP, Dias MG, Elgersma A, Fikselová M, García-Alonso J, Giuffrida D, Gonçalves VSS, Hornero-Méndez D, Kljak K, Lavelli V, Manganaris GA, Mapelli-Brahm P, Marounek M, Olmedilla-Alonso B, Periago-Castón MJ, Pintea A, Sheehan JJ, Tumbas Šaponjac V, Valšíková-Frey M, Meulebroek LV, O'Brien N (2021) A comprehensive review on carotenoids in foods and feeds: status quo, applications, patents, and research needs. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr. Jan 5:1-51. DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2020.1867959.

DIAS MG, Olmedilla-Alonso B, Hornero-Méndez D, Mercadante AZ, Osorio C, Vargas-Murga L, Meléndez-Martínez AJ (2018) Comprehensive Database of Carotenoid Contents in Ibero-American Foods. A Valuable Tool in the Context of Functional Foods and the Establishment of Recommended Intakes of Bioactives. J. Agric. Food Chem. 66, 5055−5107. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b06148.

DIAS MG, Camões MF, Oliveira L (2014) Carotenoid stability in fruits, vegetables and working standards – Effect of storage temperature and time. Food Chemistry 156, 47-51. DOI: 0.1016/j.foodchem.2014.01.050