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Seppo
Salminen

Nutrition and Food Research Center (NuFo)
MSc, MS, PhD

Contact

+358 29 450 2714
+358 40 060 1394
Kiinamyllynkatu 10
20520
Turku

Areas of expertise

Professor, Director
gut microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics, nutrition and food safety, EU regulations

Teaching

Functional Foods and EU legislation, Lactic acid biotechnology

Research

Food and health, intestinal microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics, functional foods, food legislation, health claims, novel foods

Publications

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Comments on a recently proposed alternative definition for postbiotics (2025)

Trends in Food Science and Technology
Vinderola, Gabriel; Salminen, Seppo; Collado, Maria Carmen; Endo, Akihito; Hill, Colin; Lebeer, Sarah; Merenstein, Daniel; Quigley, Eamonn M.M.; Shamir, Raanan; Swann, Jonathan R.; Szajewska, Hania; Tancredi, Daniel J.; Sanders, Mary Ellen
(B1 Vertaisarvioitu muu artikkeli (esim. pääkirjoitus, letter, comment) tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Efficacy of fermented foods for the prevention and treatment of bacterial vaginosis and vulvovaginal candidiasis (2025)

Frontiers in Nutrition
Akpınar, Aslı; Markiewicz, Lidia Hanna; Harsa, Hayriye Şebnem; Paveljšek, Diana; Domínguez-Soberanes, Julieta; Agirbasli, Zeynep; Naziri, Eleni; El Jalil, Mounaim Halim; Bouchaud, Gregory; Salminen, Seppo; Savary-Auzeloux, Isabelle; Humblot, Christèle; Chassard, Christophe; Pracer, Smilja; Vergères, Guy; Karakaş-Budak, Barçın
(A2 Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä)

Postbiotics: a perspective on their quantification (2025)

Frontiers in Nutrition
Vinderola, Gabriel; Benkowski, Andrzej; Bernardeau, Marion; Chenoll, Empar; Collado, Maria Carmen; Cronin, Ultan; Eckhardt, Erik; Green, Justin B.; Ipharraguerre, Ignacio R.; Kemperman, Rober; Lacroix, Christophe; Minami, Junichi; Wilkinson, Martin; Sanders, Mary Ellen; Salminen, Seppo
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )

Prebiotics in food and dietary supplements: a roadmap to EU health claims (2024)

Gut Microbes
Tuohy, Kieran; Vaughan, Elaine E.; Harthoorn, Lucien F.; Blaak, Ellen E.; Burnet, Philip W. J.; Busetti, Alessandro; Chakrabarti, Anirikh; Delzenne, Nathalie; de Vos, Paul; Dye, Louise; Guillemet, Damien; Houghton, Lesley A.; Kardinaal, Alwine F. M.; Mersh, Cath; Musa-Veloso, Kathy; Nielsen, Annegret; Palasinska, Justyna; Salminen, Seppo; Walton, Gemma; Venlet, Naomi; Hubermont, Charlotte; Calder, Philip C.
(B1 Vertaisarvioitu muu artikkeli (esim. pääkirjoitus, letter, comment) tieteellisessä lehdessä)