Enni Mannila
 


ensoma@utu.fi

+358 29 450 2549

+358 50 471 6945

Itäinen Pitkäkatu 4

Turku


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8199-8137

OAT-GUT-BRAIN-tutkimus

OAT-GUT-BRAIN UEF

Areas of expertise
Food microbiology; Gut microbiota; Probiotics; Medicinal plants; Sensory evaluations;

Biography

Currently, I am working as doctoral researcher at the unit of Food sciences. My research topic is comprehensive health benefits of oats.  



Research

I have experience on sensory evaluations and analytics, but my main focus is on gut microbiota and health effects of (plant) foods. My praised master's thesis (2020) focused on bioactivity of Finnish nettle and yarrow. 

I am now studying comprehensive health effects of oats on metabolically challenged individuals with Professor Kaisa Linderborg and Professor Marjukka Kolehmainen (UEF) in our OAT-GUT-BRAIN-study, with main objectives: 


  • Discover how oats affect the human plasma metabolome and gut microbiota during long intervention
  • Verify the health potential of oat phenolic compounds by analysis of inflammation markers and antioxidant capacity of plasma
  • Investigate how the microbiota and metabolic state achieved by frequent oat consumption affects the postprandial state




Publications

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