LIPIDOMICS
Lipid Metabolism
Lipid metabolism involves the breakdown, synthesis and absorption of lipids.
Lipids are essential for health as they are involved in signalling pathways, hormones, cell membrane structure, energy storage, as, well as, acting as biomarkers.
Lipids are important in foods as they are essential nutrients, affect, texture, taste, aroma, mouth feel, shelf life , safety and quality.
The lipidome varies quantitatively, qualitatively and spatially influencing the phenotypic response and adoption to environmental cues.
Lipidomics
The field of lipidomics involves the identification and quantification of lipids within biological systems.
Lipid profiling use techniques like mass spectrometry and chromatography to give insight into how lipid metabolism can influence stress response, health or disease state in biological systems.
Lipidomics has applications in areas such biofuel production, advancements in medicine, environmental stress response, nootropics food innovation, nutrition, and health validation or assessment.
Further applications include food metabolomics, Chemometrics and Lipid Modeling.