Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics
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Sebastian E.W. Opitz

ZHAW School of Life Sciences and Facility Management Section for Coffee Competence Centre and Analytical Technologies

Biography

SCA diploma green coffee professional and AST PhD at the Department of Chemical Ecology, Universities of Würzburg and Bielefeld, Germany in 2011. Title: Sequestration of plant secondary metabolites in the genus Athalia Analytics of plant secondary metabolites (glucosinolates, iridoids and clerodendrines) with HPLC-DAD, UHPLC-TOF-MS, HPLC-QTOF-MS and GC-MS. Purification, isolation and identification of a glucosinolate metabolite with preparative chromatography, ion chromatography and NMR. Master studies in chemistry and biology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany (degrees in 2005 and 2006)

Publications

Engineering the Composition of Coffee to Potentially Improve its Health Benefits

This paper describes current views on the association of coffee consumption with various health factors, and illustrates how the composition of coffee can be engineered through manipulation of the roasting process; the possibility of using this information to improve health-related properties of the beverage is then discussed. It is also noted that... Read More»

Bernard A. Goodman, Sebastian E.W. Opitz, Samo Smrke and Chahan Yeretzian

Review Article: J Nutr Diet 2018, 1:1

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