8.11.2019 Fifth Annual Meeting NutriAct

The focus of this year's fifth annual NutriAct conference at the conference centre of the German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbrücke (DIfE) was on the research projects of young scientists in the six individual NutriAct sub-projects of the NutriAct competence cluster.

The young scientists presented their research findings in the form of interdisciplinary and cross-institute tandem lectures.

At the start of the lecture series, the nutritional scientist Prof. em. Dr. oec. troph. Hannelore Daniel, Emerita Chair of Nutritional Physiology at the Technical University of Munich, spoke in her plenary lecture on the topic of “Food, Nutrition, Health: QUO VADIS?”

Dr.-Ing. Volker Heinz (head of the German Institute of Food Technologies (DIL) in Quakenbrück) emphasized the importance in food processing of focusing on aspects such as sustainability, meaningfulness and health-promoting effects rather than profit. In the future, cross-generational aspects must be taken into account and, for example, vegetable fats and proteins should become the focus of food processing.

The closing event, with the presentation of the research results of all four Competence Clusters Nutrition Research: NutriAct, nutriCARD, DietBB and enable, will take place from 17. to 19. May 2021 in the Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in Berlin Mitte.