Research

Foods for Health engages a vibrant community of researchers working within and across three key areas with the goal of improving human health.
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Crop & Food Improvement

Understanding how innovations across food and agriculture can be used to enhance the quality and healthful properties of the food value chain
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Precision Nutrition

Understanding how complex biological and environmental factors collectively influence unique nutritional needs
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Food Perception & Behavior

Understanding the chemical, chemoreceptor, and behavioral basis of food selection and eating to inform new approaches that enable healthy dietary choices
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Cross-cutting Theme: Multi-omic Analysis

FFH emphasizes the use of data-intensive omic techniques as key enabling technologies for comprehensive characterization of food and biological systems