Research group
Food Quality and Technology
Position
Researcher
Susana Soares is an Assistant Researcher at REQUIMTE LAQV. She graduated in Biochemistry at University of Porto in 2006, and got her PhD in Chemistry at University of Porto in 2012, working with Prof. Victor de Freitas. Her research is focused on understanding plant-based food taste properties, namely astringency and bitterness, and find methodologies or compounds to modulate them. Her work has been awarded by American Chemical Society (Best Paper of 2013 of J. Agric. Food Chem), by ADVID (2014 Award Michael Symington) and by R&D Nestlé (2019, Manfred Rothe Excellence Award in Flavor Research). Her work is carried on in straight collaboration with (inter)national research facilities and with Portuguese food companies (SuperBock, Proenol).
Representative Publications
Different phenolic compounds activate distinct human bitter taste receptors
10.1021/jf304198k
Carbohydrates inhibit salivary proteins precipitation by condensed tannins
10.1021/jf3002747
Reactivity of human salivary proteins families toward food polyphenols
10.1021/jf104975d
Interaction of different polyphenols with Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) and Human Salivary α-Amylase (HSA) by fluorescence quenching
10.1021/jf070905x
