Mar Giró-CandanedoIRTA Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology | IRTA · Food Technology Programme
Mar Giró-Candanedo
PHD Candidate
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Hi there! I'm Mar, I was born and raised in Girona. I am a graduate in Food Innovation and Security with a master’s degree in Food Biotecnology. I’m a fourth-year PhD candidate in Food Technologies and Consumer Behaviour at IRTA (Monells, Girona). I am exploring different ways of communicating nutritional information on food labels. I am opened and motivated to continue with my research career and enrich my passion.
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Food labels may have an important function in communicating nutrition information and have considerable potential to influence food choice and dietary behavior. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate Spanish consumers’ reasons for reading or not reading nutrition information, their nutrition knowledge, perception and understanding of nutr...
Non-invasive technologies could help to guarantee quality standards of canned tuna fish. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of bench-top (FT-NIR) and low-cost (LC-NIR) near infrared spectrometers to determine salt content and texture in canned tuna. Salt content distribution was also investigated using hyperspectral imaging (HSI)...
El desarrollo de sistemas de comunicación de la información nutricional más efectivos debería implicar al usuario final del producto. En este estudio se realizado un análisis semiótico para maximizar la efectividad de 4 sistemas de comunicación de este tipo de información, así como su validación mediante medidas explicitas e implícitas. Los resulta...
New consumer demands have increased the need for improved food processing and new value-added products that meet the latest quality standards. Changes in eating habits may lead to a preference for lower sodium products, making accurate labelling and nutritional claims important for the industry. The aim of this work was to study the application of...
Development of tools to control and prevent fraudulent practices and unfair competition by false labelling in the fish sector is a significant issue because frozen fish usually have a much lower market price than fresh fish. In this sense, near-infrared spectroscopy has demonstrated its potential to identify changes associated with freezing-thawing...
Technologies that enabling precise labelling and verification of nutritional claims are of interest for food industry, especially in those products with an inherent variation of the composition. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of multi energy X-ray absorptiometry technology for the determination of salt content in commer...
Both consumers and industry are demanding low-cost tools to prevent fraudulent practices on animal feeding regime declarations. The aim of this study was to determine the ability of two low-cost NIR sensors intended for consumers to discriminate pork meat according to the animal’s feeding regime. Effect of the measurement’s location (inner and oute...
The main parameters influencing consumer’s purchasing decision and beef acceptability are colour and general appearance (Faustman & Cassens, 1990). However, freshness and quality thresholds of the meat product might not be clear for all the consumers and they might be rather difficult to estimate using visual evaluation because the meat surface con...
La composición nutricional de los alimentos como el jamón curado presenta una gran variabilidad, por lo que la información nutricional que aparece en las etiquetas puede ser poco precisa. La implementación de tecnologías no destructivas que permitan determinar la composición nutricional proporcionaría mayor transparencia y fiabilidad a la informaci...
