luisa pellegrino

Prof. luisa pellegrino

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Academic Career Length

33Years (1994-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2000 in International Dairy Journal
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luisa pellegrino
ATAntonio Tirelli
Antonio Tirelli

25 August 2021 in Foods
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Vera LavelliVera Lavelli
Vera Lavelli
Paolo D'InceccoPaolo D'Incecco
Paolo D'Incecco
LPluisa pellegrino
luisa pellegrino
Inadequate intake of vitamin D is a global health issue related to severe diseases, mainly involving subjects with dark skin pigmentation, patients affected by malnutrition, malabsorption syndromes, or obesity, and elderly people. Some foods fortified with vitamin D have been tested in vivo, but fortification strategies with a global outreach are still lacking. This review is focused on food fortification with vitamin D, with the aim to collect information on (a) formulation strategies; (b) stability during processing and storage; and (c) in vitro bioaccessibility. Approaches to add vitamin D to various foods were analyzed, including the use of free vitamin D, vitamin D loaded in simple and double nanoemulsions, liposomes, casein micelles, and protein nanocapsules. Numerous studies were reviewed to elucidate the impact of food technologies on vitamin D’s stability, and mechanisms that lead to degradation were identified—namely, acid-catalyzed isomerization, radical-induced oxidation, and photo-oxidation. There is, however, a lack of kinetic data that allow for the prediction of vitamin D’s stability under industrial processing conditions. The roles that lipids, proteins, fibers, and antioxidants play in vitamin bioaccessibility have been clarified in various studies, while future needs include the design of specific food matrices that simultaneously achieve a balance between the long-term stability, bioaccessibility and, ultimately, in vivo functionality of vitamin D.

1 January 1995 in International Dairy Journal
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luisa pellegrino
Ivano De NoniIvano De Noni
Ivano De Noni
PRP. Resmini
P. Resmini

20 April 2007 in European Food Research and Technology
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SCStefano Cattaneo
Stefano Cattaneo
FMFabio Masotti
Fabio Masotti
LPluisa pellegrino
luisa pellegrino

1 June 2018 in Science of The Total Environment
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LBLuciana Bava
Luciana Bava
Jacopo BacenettiJacopo Bacenetti
Jacopo Bacenetti
GGGiulia Gislon
Giulia Gislon
LPluisa pellegrino
luisa pellegrino
PDP. D'Incecco
P. D'Incecco
MZMaddalena Zucali
Maddalena Zucali

1 May 2018 in Food Research International
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Paolo D'InceccoPaolo D'Incecco
Paolo D'Incecco
VRV. Rosi
V. Rosi
Giovanni CabassiGiovanni Cabassi
Giovanni Cabassi
JHJ.A. Hogenboom
J.A. Hogenboom
LPluisa pellegrino
luisa pellegrino