Rate My Professor Susanna Kariluoto

Susanna Kariluoto serves as Senior University Lecturer and holds the Title of Docent in the Department of Food and Nutrition at the University of Helsinki. Her research centers on food quality and safety with emphasis on lipids, vitamins, and other bioactive compounds, alongside broader interests in food chemistry. She has produced 65 research outputs including peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reports, with notable contributions such as her 2008 doctoral thesis titled Folates in rye: determination and enhancement by food processing and papers on bioaccessibility of vitamins in legume matrices and folate content in wheat genotypes. Kariluoto participates in multiple ongoing and completed projects including those on micronutrients in sustainable nutrition and grain legume quality, and she supervises doctoral students in the Doctoral Programme in Food Chain and Health. Her work has appeared in journals such as Food Chemistry and International Journal of Food Microbiology, and she has engaged in conference presentations, peer reviews, and public talks on topics including vegetable utilization and food processing effects.