PHYTOMILK

Potential improvement of the salutary effect of organic dairy milk by forage species and by supplementation (PhytoMilk)

 

The objective of the PhytoMilk 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

Project co-ordinators

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 Jouensuu, Finland

Stig Purup, DIAS, Denmark

Elisabet Nadeau, SLU, Sweden

Erling Thuen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), NorwayKjell Martinsson, SLU, Sweden