Seppo Salminen
MSc, MS, PhD
sepsal@utu.fi +358 29 450 2714 +358 40 060 1394 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-0420 |
Areas of expertise
Professor, Director; gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations
Professor, Director; gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations
Research
Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods
Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods
Teaching
Functional Foods and EU legislation, Lactic acid biotechnology
Publications
- Comments on a recently proposed alternative definition for postbiotics (2025)
- Trends in Food Science and Technology
(B1 Other refereed article (e.g., editorial, letter, comment) in a scientific journal) - Efficacy of fermented foods for the prevention and treatment of bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis (2025)
- Frontiers in Nutrition
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Microbiota, chronic inflammation, and health: The promise of inflammatome and inflammatomics for precision medicine and health care (2025)
- hLife
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Postbiotics: a perspective on their quantification (2025)
- Frontiers in Nutrition
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effects of Lactobacillus and/or Bifidobacterium in fermented foods on cognitive health: a systematic review (2025)
- Frontiers in Nutrition
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Fecal microbiota profiles of growing pigs and their relation to growth performance (2024)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Fewer culturable Lactobacillaceae species identified in faecal samples of pigs performing manipulative behaviour (2024)
- Scientific Reports
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Health benefits and risks of fermented foods—the PIMENTO initiative (2024)
- Frontiers in Nutrition
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Identification of stemness-related glycosylation changes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2024)
- BMC Cancer
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Lactic Acid Bacteria : Microbiological and Functional Aspects (2024) Vinderola, Gabriel; Ouwehand, Arthur C.; Salminen, Seppo; Wright, Atte von
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book)



