Seppo Salminen
MSc, MS, PhD
Professor, Director; gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations
Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods
Functional Foods and EU legislation, Lactic acid biotechnology
- Comments on a recently proposed alternative definition for postbiotics (2025)
- Trends in Food Science and TechnologyFrontiers in NutritionFrontiers in microbiology
Vinderola, Gabriel; Salminen, Seppo; Collado, Maria Carmen; Endo, Akihito; Hill, Colin; Lebeer, Sarah; Merenstein, Daniel; Quigley, Eamonn M.M.; Shamir, Raanan; Swann, Jonathan R.; Szajewska, Hania; Tancredi, Daniel J.; Sanders, Mary Ellen
- Efficacy of fermented foods for the prevention and treatment of bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis (2025)
- Frontiers in NutritionPLoS ONEGut
Akpınar, Aslı; Markiewicz, Lidia Hanna; Harsa, Hayriye Şebnem; Paveljšek, Diana; Domínguez-Soberanes, Julieta; Agirbasli, Zeynep; Naziri, Eleni; El Jalil, Mounaim Halim; Bouchaud, Gregory; Salminen, Seppo; Savary-Auzeloux, Isabelle; Humblot, Christèle; Chassard, Christophe; Pracer, Smilja; Vergères, Guy; Karakaş-Budak, Barçın
- Microbiota, chronic inflammation, and health: The promise of inflammatome and inflammatomics for precision medicine and health care (2025)
- hLifeScientific ReportsMicroorganisms
Zhang, Huan; Yang Lee, Bing Jun; Wang, Tong; Xiang, Xuesong; Tan, Yafang; Han, Yanping; Bi, Yujing; Zhi, Fachao; Wang, Xin; He, Fang; Salminen, Seppo J.; Zhu, Baoli; Yang, Ruifu
- Postbiotics: a perspective on their quantification (2025)
- Frontiers in NutritionCurrent Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
Vinderola, Gabriel; Benkowski, Andrzej; Bernardeau, Marion; Chenoll, Empar; Collado, Maria Carmen; Cronin, Ultan; Eckhardt, Erik; Green, Justin B.; Ipharraguerre, Ignacio R.; Kemperman, Rober; Lacroix, Christophe; Minami, Junichi; Wilkinson, Martin; Sanders, Mary Ellen; Salminen, Seppo
- The effects of Lactobacillus and/or Bifidobacterium in fermented foods on cognitive health: a systematic review (2025) Harsa, Hayriye Sebnem; González Domenech, Carmen María; Prvulović, Milica; Agirbasli, Zeynep; Bagherzadehsurbagh, Erfan; Simeunović, Valentina; Naziri, Eleni; Adesemoye, Elizabeth; Yigit Cinar, Aycan; Mukherjee, Arghya; Laranjo, Marta; Vidović, Bojana; Alves, Emilia; Vukojević, Anđela; Özmen Toğay, Sine; Düven, Gamze; Saar, Helen; Salminen, Seppo; Matalas, Antonia; Paveljšek, Diana; Schneider, Else; Liwinski, Timur; Chassard, Christophe; Vergères, Guy; Bär, Cornelia; Praćer, Smilja
- Fecal microbiota profiles of growing pigs and their relation to growth performanceGestational diabetes is driven by microbiota-induced inflammation months before diagnosis (2024) König, Emilia; Beasley, Shea; Heponiemi, Paulina; Kivinen, Sanni; Räkköläinen, Jaakko; Salminen, Seppo; Collado, Maria Carmen; Borman, Tuomas; Lahti, Leo; Piirainen, Virpi; Valros, Anna; Heinonen, Mari
- Fewer culturable Lactobacillaceae species identified in faecal samples of pigs performing manipulative behaviourHuman Milk Microbiota Profile Affected by Prematurity in Argentinian Lactating Women (2024) König, Emilia; Heponiemi, Paulina; Kivinen, Sanni; Räkköläinen, Jaakko; Beasley, Shea; Borman, Tuomas; Collado, Maria Carmen; Hukkinen, Vilja; Junnila, Jouni; Lahti, Leo; Norring, Marianna; Piirainen, Virpi; Salminen, Seppo; Heinonen, Mari; Valros, Anna
- Health benefits and risks of fermented foods—the PIMENTO initiative (2024) Todorovic, Smilja; Akpinar, Asli; Assunção, Ricardo; Bär, Cornelia; Bavaro, Simona L.; Berkel, Kasikci Muzeyyen; Domínguez-Soberanes, Julieta; Capozzi, Vittorio; Cotter, Paul D.; Doo, Eun-Hee; Gündüz, Ergün Burcu; Guzel, Mustafa; Harsa, Hayriye S.; Hastaoglu, Emre; Humblot, Christèle; Hyseni, Bahtir; Hosoglu, Muge I.; Issa, Aline; Karakaş-Budak, Barçın; Karakaya, Sibel; Kesenkas, Harun; Keyvan, Erhan; Künili, Ibrahim E.; Kütt, Mary-Liis; Laranjo, Marta; Louis, Sandrine; Mantzouridou, Fani T.; Matalas, Antonia; Mayo, Baltasar; Mojsova, Sandra; Mukherjee, Arghya; Nikolaou, Anastasios; Ortakci, Fatih; Paveljšek, Diana; Perrone, Giancarlo; Pertziger, Eugenia; Santa, Dushica; Sar, Taner; Savary-Auzeloux, Isabelle; Schwab, Clarissa; Starowicz, Małgorzata; Stojanović, Marko; Syrpas, Michail; Tamang, Jyoti P.; Yerlikaya, Oktay; Yilmaz, Birsen; Malagon-Rojas, Jeadran; Salminen, Seppo; Frias, Juana; Chassard, Christophe; Vergères, Guy
- Identification of stemness-related glycosylation changes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2024) Routila, Erica; Mahran, Randa; Salminen, Seppo; Irjala, Heikki; Haapio, Eeva; Kytö, Eero; Ventelä, Sami; Petterson, Kim; Routila, Johannes; Gidwani, Kamlesh; Leivo, Janne
- Lactic Acid Bacteria : Microbiological and Functional Aspects (2024) Vinderola, Gabriel; Ouwehand, Arthur C.; Salminen, Seppo; Wright, Atte von
- Nutrition Economics : Adding Value to Fermented Foods and Biotics (2024) Lactic Acid Bacteria : Microbiological and Functional Aspects Lenoir-Wijnkoop, Irene; Koponen, Aki; Salminen, Seppo
- (2024) Tuohy, Kieran; Vaughan, Elaine E.; Harthoorn, Lucien F.; Blaak, Ellen E.; Burnet, Philip W. J.; Busetti, Alessandro; Chakrabarti, Anirikh; Delzenne, Nathalie; de Vos, Paul; Dye, Louise; Guillemet, Damien; Houghton, Lesley A.; Kardinaal, Alwine F. M.; Mersh, Cath; Musa-Veloso, Kathy; Nielsen, Annegret; Palasinska, Justyna; Salminen, Seppo; Walton, Gemma; Venlet, Naomi; Hubermont, Charlotte; Calder, Philip C.
- Safety Assessment of Probiotics in the European Union (2024) Lactic Acid Bacteria : Microbiological and Functional Aspects Salminen, Seppo; von Wright, Atte
- World Gastroenterology Organisation Global Guidelines : Probiotics and Prebiotics (2024)
- Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
Guarner, F.; Sanders, M. E.; Szajewska, H.; Cohen, H.; Eliakim, R.; Herrera-deGuise, C.; Karakan, T.; Merenstein, D.; Piscoya, A.; Ramakrishna, B.; Salminen, S.; Melberg, J.
- Evidence on postbiotics in infants and children (2023) Szajewska Hania, Salminen Seppo
- Fermented foods: a perspective on their role in delivering biotics (2023) Vinderola Gabriel, Cotter Paul D., Freitas Miguel, Gueimonde Miguel, Holscher Hannah D., Ruas-Madiedo Patricia, Salminen Seppo, Swanson Kelly S., Sanders Mary Ellen, Cifelli Christopher J.
- (2023) Pinto Yishay, Frishman Sigal, Turjeman Sondra, Eshel Adi, Nuriel-Ohayon Meital, Shrossel Oshrit, Ziv Oren, Walters William, Parsonnet Julie, Ley Catherine, Johnson Elizabeth L, Kumar Krithika, Schweitzer Ron, Khatib Soliman, Magzal Faiga, Muller Efrat, Tamir Snait, Tenenbaum-Gavish Kinneret, Rautava Samuli, Salminen Seppo, Isolauri Erika, Yariv Or, Peled Yoav, Poran Eran, Pardo Joseph, Chen Rony, Hod Moshe, Borenstein Elhanan, Ley Ruth E, Schwartz Betty, Louzoun Yoram, Hadar Eran, Koren Omry
- 2023 Oddi Sofia, Mantziari Anastasia, Huber Paula, Binetti Ana, Salminen Seppo, Collado Maria Carmen, Vinderola Gabriel
- New gene markers for classification and quantification of Faecalibacterium spp. in the human gut (2023)
- FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Tanno Hiroki, Chatel Jean-Marc, Martin Rebeca, Mariat Denis, Sakamoto Mitsuo, Yamazaki Masao, Salminen Seppo, Gueimonde Miguel, Endo Akihito
- Postbiotics in the medical field under the perspective of the ISAPP definition: scientific, regulatory, and marketing considerations (2023) Vinderola Gabriel, Druart Céline, Gosálbez Luis, Salminen Seppo, Vinot Nina, Lebeer Sarah
