PHYTOMILK
Potential improvement of the salutary effect of organic dairy milk by forage species and by supplementaton (PhytoMilk)
The main objective for the entire project is to optimise the production of organic milk with salutary effects due to an optimised choise of forage species.
The objective of the project is to:
- investigate how different forage species affect the fatty acid composition of organic dairy milk, and the milk content of bioactive components such as tocopherols, carotenoids, selenium (Se) and phytoestrogenes
- investigate the biological activity of the collected dairy milk samples from the Nordic countries on normal and cancer cells
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Project co-ordinator:
Associate professor Anne-Maj Gustavsson
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)
Agricultural Research for Northern Sweden
Division of Crop Science
901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Tel.: +46 90 786 94 17; Fax: +46 90 786 81 62
E-mail: Anne-Maj.Gustavsson@njv.slu.se
Project partners:
Håvard Steinshamn, Bioforsk , Norway
Søren Krogh Jensen, DIAS, Denmark
Eeva Kuusela, Faculty of Biosciences, University of Joensuu, Finland
Stig Purup, DIAS, Denmark
Elisabet Nadeau, SLU, Sweden
Erling Thuen, Norwegian University Norway
Kjell Martinsson, SLU, Sweden