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Marieke from RESTRUCTURE receives 1st price for best oral presentation at FENS

Marieke van Bruinessen, the PhD candidate from Wageningen University & Research (WUR) working on the RESTRUCTURE trial presented won an award for Best Oral Presentation at FENS 2023!

Marieke presented data from the Prestructure study on testing the Read more

RESTRUCTURE partners presented at 15th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium in Nantes, France

The 15th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium was held in Nantes, France between 20-24th August and was attended by over 1200 academics and industry researchers. The Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour (SSEB) Chair group was well represented with 14 members Read more

Emeritus Prof. and RESTRUCTURE Partner Kees de Graaf receives prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.

We are delighted and proud to congratulate Emeritus Prof. Kees de Graaf (and RESTRUCUTRE partner) on receiving the 2023 Food Quality and Preference Lifetime Achievement Award at the recent Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium held in Nantes, France between 20-24th August Read more

Prof. Ciarán Forde contributed at the conference on “Food Processing Classification Systems” from IAFNS

Chairholder of the Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour group Prof. Ciarán Forde was recently invited to contribute to the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutritional Science (IAFNS) two-day conference on “Food Processing Classification Systems”. The meeting brought Read more

British Feeding and Drinking Group (BFDG) 47th Annual Meeting in Leeds

On 13-14 April 2023 the British Feeding and Drinking Group (BFDG) 47th Annual Meeting in Leeds took place. The Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour Group (SSEB) presented their work during this international and multi-disciplinary gathering of scientists interested in Read more

North Ireland Dairy Council meeting in Belfast

Beyond Ultra-processed: What drives energy intake from processed foods? This week our Chairholder Prof. Ciarán Forde presented at the North Ireland Dairy Council annual meeting in Belfast. Prof. Forde presented research from the RESTRUCTURE RCT and was joined by Read more

RESTRUCTURE Project Team Invited to Participate in USDA workshop on ‘Developing a Research Roadmap of Processed Food’

PhD student Lise Heuven and Prof. Ciaran Forde were invited to participate in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) workshop ‘Developing a Roadmap of Processed Food’ last week in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA. The WUR team was invited Read more

SSEB attended the 36th European Federation for Food Science and Technology International Conference

The Sensory Science and Eating Behaviour team were well represented last week at the 36th European Federation for Food Science and Technology (EFFoST) International Conference. The theme of this international conference was Shaping the Production of Sustainable, Healthy Foods Read more

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We are still looking into opportunities to enlarge the scope of the study and welcome new funding sources.

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The journey begins…

RESTRUCTURE partners met for the first time in June 2021 for the online kick-off meeting of the project and discussed the plans for the coming 3 years, until February 2024.

The project relies on a private-public partnership grant by Read more