Elisabete Pinto

Assistant Professor

Elisabete Pinto

Assistant Professor

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Elisabete Pinto graduated in Nutrition Sciences from the University of Porto in 2003 and got her PhD in Public Health at the same University in 2010. She is, since 2008, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Biotechnology, where she teaches several curricular units in the field of Nutrition and Public Health, and researcher at the Center for Biotechnology and Fine Chemistry (CBQF) and at the Institute of Public Health of Porto University.

It is responsible for supervise students from different study cycles. Her research areas focus on Nutritional Epidemiology, Community Nutrition, Life Cycle Nutrition and Food Sustainability. She has participated and coordinated several national and international research projects at the ESB. She is co-coordinator of the Postgraduate courses in "Nutrition and aging" and "Pediatric nutrition: from conception to adolescence".

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Publications

Paper

Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Role of Locus of Control in the Transition from Environmental Concerns to Organic Product Consumption in North Portugal, a SmartPLS Study

Elisabete Pinto (with Lucía Penalba-Sánchez). 2024. Sustainability

Research Grant - Project LESSisMORE - BI-3

Sociedade Civil: Biotecnologia

Seeds of Knowledge: Transitioning from Plant Reproduction to the RADIANT Project

Elisabete Pinto

Elisabete Pinto

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Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Role of Locus of Control in the Transition from Environmental Concerns to Organic Product Consumption in North Portugal, a SmartPLS Study

Eficácia de intervenções dietéticas e nutricionais na diabetes gestacional – revisão sistemática

Evaluating E-Health Literacy, Knowledge, Attitude, and Health Online Information in Portuguese University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Impact of a daily legume‐based meal on blood and anthropometric parameters in a group of omnivorous adults: A pilot study

Promoting Nutrition Literacy and Food Neophilia of Middle School Children Through a Serious Hybrid Game

A short questionnaire to assess changes in lifestyle-related behaviour upon stressful situations: translation, cultural adaptation, and validation study

Avaliação da e-literacia em saúde em estudantes universitários portugueses: Um estudo transversal.

Avaliação do conhecimento e das práticas relativas à doença celíaca por parte do pessoal dos refeitórios das escolas do município de Santa Maria da Feira

Avaliação do impacto do programa Nutrium Corporate Wellness na literacia nutricional em meio laboral

Avaliação dos hábitos alimentares de crianças com sobrecarga ponderal e das atitudes dos pais face à alimentação das crianças

Comportamentos pró-ambientais de agregados familiares com crianças

Impact of a daily legume‐based meal on dietary and nutritional intake in a group of omnivorous adults

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental and physical health and overall wellbeing of university students in Portugal

Nutritional assessment of patients in long-term care at Hospital Santa Maria  Porto, and the perceptions of the nursing team

Online holistic program to foster health amongst students: a pilot study in a Portuguese University during COVID-19 pandemic

Padrão alimentar e literacia nutricional dos profissionais da Unidade Local de Saúde do Alto Minho, EPE

Padrão alimentar e literacia nutricional dos profissionais de uma Unidade Local de Saúde do norte de Portugal

Prevalence of nutritional inadequacy in children aged 12–36 months: EPACI Portugal 2012

The Influence of Serious Games in the Promotion of Healthy Diet and Physical Activity Health: A Systematic Review

Understanding the motives behind the consumption of organic products in North Portugal: a focus group study

Alimentação e nutrição no doente oncológico

Breakfast cereal products consumption and consumer preferences: a study on dietary fibre content awareness

Data Management Plan - Deliverable 8.3 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), under grant agreement No. 101000622

Data management plan: deliverable 8.3 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), under grant agreement No. 101000622

Development of a healthy lentil-based food product

Development of a microfluidic paper-based analytical device for magnesium determination in saliva samples

EPQ - Requirement No. 3 - Deliverable 9.3 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), under Grant Agreement No. 101000622

EPQ - requirement no. 3: deliverable 9.3 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), under grant agreement no. 101000622

Healthier and Sustainable Food Systems: Integrating Underutilised Crops in a ¿Theory of Change Approach¿

Lentil (Lens culinaris L.) intraspecific nutritional variability and development of a lentil-based snack

Lentil-based snack: development and nutritious properties

Novel synbiotic fermented finger millet-based yoghurt-like beverage: Nutritional, physicochemical, and sensory characterization

Nutritional intake and food sources in an adult urban Kenyan population

POPD - Requirement No. 2 - Deliverable 9.2 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), grant agreement No. 101000622

POPD - requirement no. 2: deliverable 9.2 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), grant agreement no. 101000622

Potential role of pulses in the development of functional foods modulating inflammation and oxidative stress

Qual a evolução da predisposição dos portugueses para consumir leguminosas como fonte proteica principal?

Risk management plan: deliverable 8.2

Widening the Perspectives for Legume Consumption: The Case of Bioactive Non-nutrients

Determinantes biológicos precoces de sinais de adiposidade na infância

Dietary intake and tailored fermentation towards the development of functional cereal fibre-rich food products : bridge between Africa and Europe

ESTARÃO AS ESCOLAS DO GRANDE PORTO PREPARADAS PARA ALIMENTAR CRIANÇAS COM DOENÇA CELÍACA?

Genetically modified food and health professionals : knowledge, practice and training needs

H - Requirement No. 1 . Deliverable 9.1 for the EU-H2020 funded project, 'Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops' (RADIANT), grant agreement No. 101000622.

H - requirement no. 1: deliverable 9.1 for the EU-H2020 funded project, realising dynamic value chains for underutilised crops' (RADIANT), grant agreement no. 101000622

Impact of a pulse-based vegetarian lunch meal on the modulation of gut bacterial populations

Impacto da COVID-19 na alimentação, outros estilos de vida e saúde mental em estudantes universitários

Impacto da COVID-19 na alimentação, outros estilos de vida e saúde mental em estudantes universitários

Legumes as a Cornerstone of the Transition Toward More Sustainable Agri-Food Systems and Diets in Europe

Pilot study: the training of health professionals about genetically modified food from the perspective of the Science, technology and society

Policy brief: pulses on the menu

Policy briefs &amp; recommendations

Promoção da literacia nutricional em crianças e jovens institucionalizados

Pulse consumption: potential drivers and barriers towards a sustainable diet: TRUE Deliverable D1.10: practice abstracts II

Qual a suscetibilidade dos portugueses para consumir leguminosas como fonte proteica principal?

Risk Management Plan - Deliverable 8.2 for the EU-H2020 funded project "Realising Dynamic Value Chains for Underutilised Crops" (RADIANT), under grant agreement No. 101000622.

Short Term Elevated CO2 Interacts with Iron Deficiency, Further Repressing Growth, Photosynthesis and Mineral Accumulation in Soybean (Glycine max L.) and Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

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A culture-sensitive semi-quantitative FFQ for use among the adult population in Nairobi, Kenya: development, validity and reproducibility

Benefits of pulse consumption on metabolism and health: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Biological Potential of a Novel Symbiotic Functional Fermented African Cereal-Based Product and its Influence on the Human Gut Microbiota

Caraterização dos utentes da consulta multidisciplinar de pediatria/diabetes do Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro  CHTMAD, EPE

Carotenoids Biofortification of Sweet Potatoes

Determinantes do comportamento alimentar de crianças em idade pré-escolar do Município da Maia

Estudo da prevalência de excesso de peso e obesidade infantis na população pré-escolar do Município da Maia e dos fatores de risco associados

Health benefits of pulse consumption - An overview

Impacto de uma intervenção de alimentação saudável em contexto laboral

Iodo : ingestão recomendada desde a preconceção à amamentação

Marketing digital e escolhas alimentares de crianças e adolescentes : a perceção dos encarregados de educação

Pulse Consumption among Portuguese Adults: Potential Drivers and Barriers towards a Sustainable Diet

The biology of legumes and their agronomic, economic, and social impact

The push-, pull- and enabling  capacities necessary for legume grain inclusion into sustainable agri-food systems and healthy diets

Two scientific (peer-reviewed) publications

Um Inquérito Sobre a Opinião, Conhecimentos e Necessidades de Formação dos Médicos Relativamente aos Alimentos Transgénicos

Nutritional assessment of patients in long-term care at Hospital Santa Maria Porto, and the perceptions of the nursing team

Policy briefs & recommendations

Caraterização dos utentes da consulta multidisciplinar de pediatria/diabetes do Centro Hospitalar de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro CHTMAD, EPE

The push-, pull- and enabling capacities necessary for legume grain inclusion into sustainable agri-food systems and healthy diets

Alimentação Saudável dos 0 aos 6 anos Linhas de Orientação para Profissionais e Educadores

TRUE: WP3 Nutrition and Product Development objectives, ongoing research and communication at UCP