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Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot
Associate Professor

Associate Professor Jayashree Arcot

Engineering
School of Chemical Engineering
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Jayashree Arcot is an Associate Professor in the Food and Health in the School of Chemical Engineering. She is the Undergraduate Food Science Program Co-ordinator and Advisor.

Her expertise spreads across Food Science and Nutrition with a focus on micronutrients and bioactives in foods, their sources and bioavailability in humans using stable isotopic techniques and developing new in vitro tools such as 2D and 3D cell culture techniques for understanding the bioavailability of nutrients. She was the Director of the ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture (2013-2018) (ww.atfm.unsw.edu.au). She initiated several industry funded projects- nutrient recovery from food manufacturing stream wastes; utilisation of agricultural wastes for producing biodegradable packaging material using nanotechnology ((https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/packaging-made-banana-plants-peeling-alternative). She served on the AOAC (US) Stakeholder Panel for Infant Formula and Adult Nutritionals (SPIFAN) as an expert on folate, Vitamin D and Vitamin C analytical methodology. She was a member on the Folate Technical Advisory Group of the Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) in 2009. She was the Vice-cordinator of OCEANFOODS (INFOODS, FAO) from 2009-2019. She is a member of the International Humanitarian Food Science and Technology (HFST) Network. She is on the Editorial Board of Food Frontier; and an Associate Editor and Review Editor for the journal Frontiers in Nutrition. 

 

 

 

 
Phone
+61 2 93855360
E-mail
j.arcot@unsw.edu.au
Location
416A, E10, Hilmer Building (entry via E8, SEB)
  • Journal articles | 2020
    Wang LS; Simal-Gandara J; Du M; Lu B; Quiles JL; Chen ZY; Hennig B; Wang M; Xiao H; Arcot J; Yue T; Zheng B; Zou X; Marunaka Y; Ai L; Bai W; Battino M; Giampieri F; Georgiev MI; Liao X; Guven EC; Ismail A; Jafari SM; Li C; Mocan A; Wang J; Sun C; Xu BB; Yin J; Zengin G; Delmas D; Daglia M; Campos MG; Chen F; Xiong YL; Tundis R; Nie S; Xiao J, 2020, 'Food Frontiers: An academically sponsored new journal', Food Frontiers, vol. 1, pp. 3 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fft2.8
    Journal articles | 2019
    Luo X; Arcot J; Gill T; Louie JCY; Rangan A, 2019, 'A review of food reformulation of baked products to reduce added sugar intake', Trends in Food Science and Technology, vol. 86, pp. 412 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2019.02.051
    Journal articles | 2017
    Yeung CHC; Gohil P; Rangan AM; Flood VM; Arcot J; Gill TP; Louie JCY, 2017, 'Modelling of the impact of universal added sugar reduction through food reformulation', Scientific Reports, vol. 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17417-8
    Journal articles | 2016
    Ramos PE; Abrunhosa L; Pinheiro A; Cerqueira MA; Motta C; Castanheira I; Chandra-Hioe MV; Arcot J; Teixeira JA; Vicente AA, 2016, 'Probiotic-loaded microcapsule system for human in situ folate production: Encapsulation and system validation', Food Research International, vol. 90, pp. 25 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2016.10.036
    Journal articles | 2011
    Arcot J; Vishnumohan S; Pickford R, 2011, 'Naturally occurring folates in foods: method development and analysis using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)', Food Chemistry, vol. 125, pp. 736 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.08.032

Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervison Award, 2013- Awarded by Postgraduate Council UNSW, Arc (UNSW Student Life) and UNSW Graduate Research School

Australia-India Senior Visiting Fellowship (2012-2013)- Awarded by the Australian Academy of Science

Research Interests:

  • Food composition and development of analytical techniques (biological and chemical) for nutrients in foods
  • Fortification of foods with micronutrients: technologies, bioavailability in humans
  • Development of isotope dilution methods for the analysis of vitamins and other bioactives in foods using LC-MS techniques
  • Bioactive compounds in foods and their activities in vitro and ex vivo
  • Micronutrient bioavailability in humans using stable isotopic studies; ex vivo cell culture techniques
 

Current projects include:

  • Vitamin analysis of foods especially folate, cyanocobalamin and vitamin D (immunoassays, microbiological assays and LC-MS analysis of vitamers using stable isotope dilution assays)
  • Biodiversity of nutrients in plant-based foods (genotypic variations) esp. cereals and legumes
  • Fortification of foods (rice and wheat flour) with micronutrients (folate, iron and beta carotene) using edible coating materials and processing methods
  • Bioactives in fruits (analysis of phenolic compounds using stable isotope dilution methods; GC-MS and LC-MS analysis)
  • Unconventional cereals and their prebiotic potential
  • Improving Vitamin B12 in plant-based foods through fermentation; developing new ingredients of high nutritional value through processing
  • Nutrient recovery from food manufacturing waste streams; agricultural wastes
  • Development of biodegradable nanopolymers as packaging material from agricultural wastes (https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/packaging-made-banana-plants-peeling-alternative) 
  • Human intervention trials for bioefficacy of micronutrient fortification of wheat flour in Papua New Guinea
  • Micronutrient bioavailability (folate) from fortified foods and natural sources using stable isotope techniques in humans
  • Bioactive compounds from foods especially lutein and Zeaxanthin, dietary intakes in different age groups, factors influencing intakes (for e.g. age, gender and ethnicity) and prevalence of dry eye disease and macular degeneration of the eye
  • Sustainable utilisation of local crops for combating malnutrition in children in the NTT region of Indonesia (https://www.unsw.edu.au/news/2022/05/improving-food-and-nutrition-security-for-young-children-in-indonesia)  

My Research Supervision

7 PhD students and several honours and Master's students in the areas of Food Science, Food Chemistry and Nutrition.

My Teaching

Nutrition

Advanced Nutrition

Introduction to Food Science

Food and Health Security