PAN Olsztyn

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Achievements
  • Identification of new phenolic compounds from rapeseed, flaxseed, and green tea.
  • Relationship between astringency of legumes extracts and their content of tannins and total phenolics (together with the Laboratory of Sensory Analysis).
  • The comparison of antioxidant activity of a dozen phenolic aids.
  • The patent of the method of separation of the antioxidant extracts from bearberry (Pegg R.B., Barl B., Amarowicz R.: Process for producing antioxidant extract from bearberry plant. United States Patent – US 6,660,320 B1).
  • Development of the algorithm for digital description of food structure indices (microstructure of wheat grain, porosity of bread, non invasive detection of cereal grain insects, cheeses),
  • Description of the microstructure, rheological properties, selected biomarkers and technological quality of transgenic potatoes with enhanced resistance to PVY virus
  • Characterization of non-starch compounds and their role in granule functional properties
  • Calculation of the thickness of growth rings and semicrystalline lamellae clusters in starch granules using SEM, TEM and WAXS methods
  • Determination of thermodynamic properties of mutant wheat starches,
  • Application of high pressure for starch modification.
 

DIVISION OF FOOD SCIENCE

Tuwima 10 Str. 10-748 Olsztyn

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Department of Chemical and Physical Properties of Food


Head

Ryszard Amarowicz, Prof.

 

Professor

Józef Fornal, Prof.

 

Associated Professor

Wioletta Błaszczak, Ph.D., D.Sc.

 

Assistant Professor

Magdalena Karamać, Ph.D., D.Sc.

Agnieszka Kosińska, Ph.D.

Tomasz Jeliński, Ph.D.

 

Senior Specialists

Jadwiga Sadowska, Ph.D.

Andrzej Ornowski, M.Sc.

 

Technologists

Kamila Penkacik, M.Sc.

Katarzyna Sulewska, M.Sc.

Anna Urbalewicz, M.Sc.

 

Ph.D. Students

Janiak Michał, M.Sc.

Adrian Górecki, M.Sc.

Piotr Starowicz, M.Sc.

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