Proven for the First Time: The Microbiome of Fruit and Vegetables Positively Influences Diversity in the Gut

Bacterial diversity in the gut plays an important role in human health

25-Oct-2023 - In a meta-study, a research team from the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology at TU Graz has provided evidence that the consumption of fruit and vegetables contributes positively to bacterial diversity in the human gut. Bacterial diversity in the gut plays an important role in human health. ...

Sniffing out carcinogens in foodstuffs

Andrea Hochegger, an analytical chemist at TU Graz, investigates whether foodstuffs can be tainted with harmful substances from packaging or during production

27-Sep-2022 - Andrea Hochegger’s current research focus is the question of contamination with mineral oil hydrocarbons. “We break up complex mixtures into MOSH and MOAH fractions,” Andrea explains. These are groups of chemical compounds found in mineral oil. MOSH stands for mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons ...

Of apples and oil pumpkins: News from microbiome research

On the trail of the universal apple microbiome

16-Apr-2021 - The extent to which the composition of the microbiome of apples and oil pumpkins depends on the geography of the location and what insights can be derived from this for breeding, health and shelf life of the fruits is shown in two recent publications by researchers at TU Graz. The microbiome is ...

Resistant rice plants

TU Graz identifies bacterium that protects rice plants from disease

13-Jan-2021 - With their microbiome expertise, the researchers at the Institute of Environmental Biotechnology were able to demonstrate how a specific bacterium inside the seeds of rice plants effectively inhibits destructive plant pathogens in an environmentally friendly manner. Rice is the staple food for ...

Minimizing post-harvest food losses

Research team from Graz, Austria, develops biological methods to improve the shelf life of fruit and vegetables

12-Nov-2019 - he crops have been harvested. Now it is important to store the various crops well and to preserve them as long and as carefully as possible. Post-harvest losses due to spoilage, however, represent a significant problem along the supply chain and lead to profit losses in the millions. According to ...

High concentrations of trace elements in native fungi

19-Jul-2019 - The mushroom season is open. In the restaurants, chanterelle dishes have been on the menu for several weeks now. Chemists from the University of Graz have investigated and determined everything that is in porcini mushrooms, parasol & co: Mushrooms enrich trace elements from the soil generally ...