
Ayurveda Biology and Holistic Nutrition
Dr. Gurmeet Singh
Professor & Dean (Research & Outreach)
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Research Interests
Food Analytics & Developing an Integrative Nutrition Database, Mass Personalization of Nutrition, Post-harvest botanical processing for value addition, Functional food design, Process Science & Tech, Texturizing Vegetarian Proteins
Ongoing Projects / Research
Teaching Activities
Outreach Activities
Selected Publications
Jha, Durgesh K., Dhekne, Pallavee P., Yadav, Geeta U., Patwardhan, Ashwin W. and Singh, Gurmeet ‘Characterisation & evaluation of tea bag papers’, to be submitted to J. Food Sci & Technology.
Raosaheb A. Farakte, Geeta Yadav, Bhushan Joshi, Ashwin W. Patwadhan and Gurmeet Singh Effect of brewing temperature, tea types and particle size on infusion of tea components. Accepted for publication in International Food Research Journal
Yadav, Geet U., Joshi, Bhushan S., Patwardhan, Ashwin W. and Singh, Gurmeet ‘Swelling Kinetics of Tea in Tea Bags’, Journal of Food Science & Technology, 54 (8): 2474-2484, 2017
Raosaheb A. Farakte, Geeta Yadav, Bhushan Joshi, Ashwin W. Patwadhan and Gurmeet Singh ‘Modeling Tea Infusion Kinetics Incorporating Swelling Kinetics’ International Journal of Food Engineering 13(2) 2017
Bhushan S.Joshi, RaosahebA.Farakte, GeetaU.Yadav, AshwinW.Patwardhan, Gurmeet Singh ‘Swelling kinetics of tea in hot water’ J Food Sci Technol 53(1):315–325, 2016
Raosaheb A. Farakte, Geeta Yadav, Bhushan Joshi, Ashwin W. Patwadhan and Gurmeet Singh ‘Role of Particle Size in Tea Infusion Process’, Int. J. Food Eng. 2016; 12(1): 1–16
K. M. Vasantha, Lokesh Basavararaju, Sreeramulu Guttapadu, Gurmeet Singh, T. G. Prasad, ‘Cuticular Wax Content on Tea Leaves: Changes with Leaf Development, Clonal Variations and its Relationship to Cuticular Transpiration’, International Journal of Tea Science, Vol 11, No 3&4 (2015)
Karishma Rajbhar, Himanshu Dawda, Usha Mukandan, Purna Venkatesh, Gurmeet Singh, Sreeramulu Guttapadu and Vilas Sinkar, ‘Polyphenols: Methods of Extraction’, Sci. Revs. Chem. Commun 5(1), 2015, 1-6, 2015
Payal Gupta, Kuldeep Mamtani, Gurmeet Singh, Sreeramulu Guttapadu ‘Thermal inactivation kinetics of polyphenols oxidase from tea’, International Journal of Tea Science, Vol 10, No 3&4 (2014)
Kanani D. M., Nikhade B. P., Balakrishnan P., Singh G. and Pangarkar V. G. ‘Recovery of Valuable Tea Aroma Components by Pervaporation’, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 42 (26), pp 6924–6932, 2003
Mukundan U, Bhagwat V, Singh G and Curtis W R (2001). Integrated recovery of pigments released from red beet hairy roots exposed to acidic medium. Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 10, 67-69, 2001
Singh, G., “Bioreactor design for plant tissue culture – a simple approach to culturing plant cells at a large-scale” in Proceedings of National Symposium on Bioprocessing and rDNA Technology, Ed. Bihari, V., 1998.
Singh, G., “Elicitation - manipulating and enhancing secondary metabolite production” in Plant Cell and Tissue Culture for Production of Food Ingredients and Additives, Eds. Fu, T. J., Singh, G., Curtis, W. R., Plenum Books, 1998.
Mukundan, U., Bhide, V., Singh, G., Curtis, W. R., ‘pH mediated release of betalains from transformed root cultures of Beta vulgaris L’, Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 50(2), 241-245, 1998.
Awards / Memberships
Gurmeet won the of Best Teacher Award at Penn State (1997), Best Patent Award Unilever (2005), Unilever Global Compass Award for Innovation (2013), Chairmans Award for Tea Category (2018).