Chia Seeds

Dr Shivani Pathania is a Research Officer at the Food Industry Development Department, Teagasc, Food Research Centre, Ashtown, Dublin, Ireland. Dr Pathania’s research interests include food packaging, novel food processing technologies, ingredient interactions especially starch and protein ingredients. She has good experience in the area of scalable processes and thermal and non- thermal separation and processing techniques in improving process efficiency, waste product utilization and new product development. She has published more than 20 peer reviewed articles and co-edited books and currently supervises more than 4 PhD students, 1 Post Doc etc. Recently, Dr Pathania received SPRINT AWARD 2023 for her recognition of clean green packaging technology.Dr Milica Pojić is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Food Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research interests are in the area of new food product development and valorization of food by-products and alternative sustainable raw materials of plant origin. She coordinated several international and bilateral research projects in the area of novel food processing and formulation. Her research outputs include numerous peer-reviewed research publications, chapters, and two co-edited book. She is an editorial board member of two scientific journals: Food and Feed Research and Discover Food. Dr. Tiwari is a lecturer within the School of Food Science & Environmental Health, TU Dublin, Ireland. She has extensively worked in the areas of grain processing, utilisation of by-products, innovative ingredients-based food product development and sustainable food systems, risk assessment, farm to fork modelling. She has published in several peer-reviewed journals, co-edited a book and guest edited two special issues. She is also a professional member of the American Society for Nutrition and Cereals & Grains Association.

• I. CHIA VALUE CHAIN ANALYSIS1. Chia breeding and agriculture2. Post harvest handling of chia3. Chia value chain analysis4. Knowledge management of chiaII. CHIA BIOMASS PROPERTIES5. Nutritional and chemical composition of chia seeds/leaves6. Applications of chia seed carbohydrates7. Applications of Chia seed oil and lipids8. Chia seed proteins9. Health-promoting properties of chiaIII. NOVEL CHIA-BASED VALUE CHAINS10. Application of chia seeds in cereal-based products11. Application of chia seeds in meat products12. Application of chia seeds in beverages13. Application of chia seeds for packaging solutions14. Gastronomic significance of chia15. Other non-food chia applications16. Chia for feed and forage