About

Dr. Liangli (Lucy) Yu is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Nutrition & Food Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on nutraceuticals and functional foods for reducing the risk of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases, as well as the interactions between food factors and gut microbiota and their impacts on host health. She also investigates food safety and integrity chemistry, natural food preservatives, and the cellular and molecular mechanisms of bioactive food factors. Dr. Yu has made significant contributions to the production of value-added nutraceutical and functional foods for disease prevention and health promotion, and has explored natural preservatives to improve food quality and safety. She has authored multiple books on food chemistry and nutraceuticals, and serves as an executive editor for the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Her work has been recognized with numerous awards, including the 2023 Award for Advancement of Application of Agricultural and Food Chemistry from the American Chemical Society and the 2022 Distinguished University Professor title at UMD. Her academic responsibilities include teaching courses such as Food Chemistry and Food Safety Chemistry, and she is actively involved in research and editorial activities in her field.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Combinatorial chemistry
• Environmental health
• Biology
• Marketing
• Economic growth
• Botany
• Food science
• Chemistry
• Photochemistry
• Geography
• Inorganic chemistry
• Medicine
• Organic chemistry
• Business
• Chromatography
• Economics
• Biochemistry

Selected publications

• A novel selective detection method for sulfide in food systems based on the GMP-Cu nanozyme with laccase activity

  Talanta · 2021 · 85 citations

  • Chemistry
  • Inorganic chemistry
  • Combinatorial chemistry
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• Glucosinolates in <i>Brassica</i> Vegetables: Characterization and Factors That Influence Distribution, Content, and Intake

  Annual Review of Food Science and Technology · 2021 · 94 citations

  • Biology
  • Food science
  • Botany

  vegetables and the influence of cooking and processing methods ultimately affect their intake and health-promoting properties.

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• Building a Resilient, Sustainable, and Healthier Food Supply Through Innovation and Technology

  Annual Review of Food Science and Technology · 2020 · 105 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Business
  • Economic growth

  , we highlight some of the major challenges confronting the modern food supply chain as well as how innovations in policy and technology can be used to address them. Pertinent technological innovations include robotics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, advanced diagnostics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, gene editing, vertical farming, and soft matter physics. Many of these technologies are already being employed across the food chain by farmers, distributors, manufacturers, and consumers to improve the quality, nutrition, safety, and sustainability of the food supply. These innovations are required to stimulate the development and implementation of new technologies to ensure a more equitable, resilient, and efficient food production system. Where appropriate, these technologies should be carefully tested before widespread implementation so that proper risk-benefit analyses can be carried out. They can then be employed without causing unforeseen adverse consequences. Finally, it is important to actively engage all stakeholders involved in the food supply chain throughout the development and testing of these new technologies to support their adoption if proven safe and effective.

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Frequent coauthors

• Boyan Gao

  Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  118 shared

• Thomas T. Y. Wang

  Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

  103 shared

• Jianghao Sun

  Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

  93 shared

• Pei Chen

  Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center

  88 shared

• Jun‐Jie Yin

  Ningxia University

  79 shared

• Zhihong Cheng

  Fudan University

  79 shared

• Yanfang Li

  Shandong University

  74 shared

• Zhihao Liu

  China Medical University

  73 shared

Awards & honors

• 2023 Award for Advancement of Application of Agricultural an…
• 2022 Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryl…
• 2021 Fellow, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 2020 Stephen S. Chang Award for Lipid or Flavor Science, Ins…
• 2019 Outstanding Science and Technology Award of the Chinese…

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