I graduated in Nutrition Sciences (BSc) from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto, in 2012. Over the years, I have worked as a Nutritionist in different areas, namely, Clinical Nutrition, Public Health and Community Nutrition, as well as within the Food Industry sector regarding Quality and Food Safety Systems management. In 2015, I undertook a Graduate Course in Nutrition and Aging at the Faculty of Biotechnology of the Portuguese Catholic University (ESB-UCP) and in 2016 finished a Master's Degree in biotechnology and Innovation (Branch Human Nutrition) at the same institution, studying the relationship between food waste and nutritional status among Portuguese institutionalized elderly people. Parallelly, I worked as a research interviewer at the project PRONUTRISENIOR: a holistic approach to the older adults living in the community. From Out 2017 until Fev 2022 I was an FCT grant PhD student at ESB-UCP, studying diet sustainability. My PhD thesis was developed in the frame of the European project TRUE - TRansition paths to sUstainable legume-based systems in Europe, under the theme impact of a pulse-based partial replacement diet on human metabolome and health. Since then, my research work has continued to focus on sustainable diets with increasing Q1 publications regarding these matters.
Publications:
Ferreira, H.
Vasconcelos, M.
Pinto, E.
(2024)
, Impact of a daily legume-based meal on blood and anthropometric parameters in a group of omnivorous adults
, Nutrition Bulletin.
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Ferreira, H.
Vasconcelos, M.
Pinto, E.
(2023)
, Impact of a daily legume-based meal on dietary and nutritional intake in a group of omnivorous adults
, Nutrition Bulletin - 2.
, https://doi.org/10.1111/nbu.12613
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Ferreira, H.
Pinto, E.
Vasconcelos, M.
(2022)
, Potential role of pulses in the development of functional foods modulating inflammation and oxidative stress
, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-823482-2.00003-0
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Pinto, E.
Ferreira, H.
Santos, C.
Silva, M.
Silva, B.
Iannetta, P.
Vasconcelos, M.
(2022)
, Healthier and sustainable food systems
, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07434-9_9
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Aguiar, J.
Ferreira, H.
Pinto, E.
Vasconcelos, M.
Rangel, A.
Mesquita, R.
(2022)
, Development of a microfluidic paper-based analytical device for magnesium determination in saliva samples
, Talanta Open.
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