Enni
Mannila
Doctoral Candidate, Food Sciences
Doctoral Researcher, Department of Life Technologies
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
In Vitro Bioactivities of Food Grade Extracts from Yarrow (Achillea millefolium L) and Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica L) Leaves (2023)
Plant Foods for Human Nutrition
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Exogenous Polyamines Influence In Vitro Microbial Adhesion to Human Mucus according to the Age of Mucus Donor (2021)
Microorganisms
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))