Rista Anggriani
PhD student
Department of agricultural economics
Agri-food marketing and consumer behavior
Ghent University
Coupure links 653
9000 Ghent, Belgium
rista.anggriani@ugent.be
Rista Anggriani, a PhD researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Gent University, is a VLIR UOS scholarship awardee from the TEAM Project. Rista obtained her master’s degree in a double-degree program at Brawijaya University, Indonesia, and the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. In line with her academic background in both previous studies, Rista currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Food Technology at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia.
Functional food is her expertise, so she wants to raise the main issues of dark chocolate: “the conflict between nutritional value and palatability”. Her research is working on the role of phytonutrients in chocolate perception. High phytonutrient content tends to be less sensorially appealing, while products with better taste are often preferred but lose most of their functional compounds during processing. Thus, her research has the potential to pave the way for the development of “functional chocolate” that is not only nutritionally superior but also widely accepted by consumers due to its consistently pleasant taste. She supports the project’s research activities, knowledge transfer, and capacity-building initiatives with the results of her PhD research.
- Functional Food
- Food Sensory
- Food Phytonutrient
Rista Anggriani
PhD student
Department of agricultural economics
Agri-food marketing and consumer behavior
Ghent University
Coupure links 653
9000 Ghent, Belgium
rista.anggriani@ugent.be
Bio
Agri-food marketing and consumer behavior
Ghent University
Coupure links 653
9000 Ghent, Belgium
rista.anggriani@ugent.be
Rista Anggriani, a PhD researcher in the Department of Agricultural Economics, Gent University, is a VLIR UOS scholarship awardee from the TEAM Project. Rista obtained her master’s degree in a double-degree program at Brawijaya University, Indonesia, and the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. In line with her academic background in both previous studies, Rista currently works as a lecturer in the Department of Food Technology at the University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia.
Research
Functional food is her expertise, so she wants to raise the main issues of dark chocolate: “the conflict between nutritional value and palatability”. Her research is working on the role of phytonutrients in chocolate perception. High phytonutrient content tends to be less sensorially appealing, while products with better taste are often preferred but lose most of their functional compounds during processing. Thus, her research has the potential to pave the way for the development of “functional chocolate” that is not only nutritionally superior but also widely accepted by consumers due to its consistently pleasant taste. She supports the project’s research activities, knowledge transfer, and capacity-building initiatives with the results of her PhD research.