Alyson E' Mitchell PhD Associate Professor Food Science

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Alyson E. Mitchell PhDAssociate ProfessorFood
Science Technologyhttp//mitchell.ucdavis.edu
A. E. Mitchell

• Education
• BS Environmental Toxicology
• PhD in Pharmacology Toxicology
• Post Doctoral studies in Nutrition
• Research Emphasis
• Assessing the pharmacokinetics of flavonoids and
  other phytochemicals important to public health
• Particular interest in the bioavailability,
  metabolism, and elimination of flavonoids in
  humans
• Emphasis on the use of mass spectrometry to
  elucidate bioactive forms of the flavonoid
  quercetin in plasma
• Interest in how the glycosidic forms of
  flavonoids in foods influence bioavailability

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A. E. Mitchell

• Understanding how diet and whole foods influence
  biotransformation reactions
• The use of excreted quercetin metabolites as a
  non-invasive model for understanding how gender,
  age, disease and diet influence in vivo
  biotransformation reactions
• Understanding how pre-, and post-harvest factors
  influence fruits and vegetable quality
• Characterizing relationships between organic,
  sustainable and conventional cultivation
  practices and the flavonoids and vitamins content
  of fruits and vegetables
• Understanding how processing and storage
  influence flavonoid stability in foods and
  developing new products/methods for providing
  improved flavonoid levels in processed foods