The Diet and Phenotype research theme aims to explore the associations and effects of diet on human health and disease.
Our research focuses on establishing the phenotypic associations and responses to nutrients, food components, foods and whole diets. Our research methodologies include high quality acute and chronic intervention trials and observational studies in healthy people and those with chronic conditions. Our world-leading scientists have decades of expertise in research studies including the individual glycaemic responses to foods, polyphenols and the gut microbiome, nuts and cardiometabolic risk, probiotics in constipation, the low FODMAP diet in irritable bowel syndrome, food additives in inflammatory bowel disease and nutritional optimisation in cancer and critical illness.
We use our expertise to undertake systematic reviews and meta-analyses that inform national and international dietary guidelines that impact the health and wellbeing of large numbers of the public and patient populations.
