- 식용곤충을 이용한 기능성 식품 및 고령친화식품 개발(두부, 장류, 젓갈류 등) - 근 감소 개선을 위한 식용곤충 단백질 및 펩타이드 활용 연구 진행 * Development of Sustainable Foods and Materials by Using Edible Insects In our laboratory, functional food products(such as soy sauce, tofu, shake with mealworm or cricket) are being developed and analysis of protein and peptide from mealworm is conducted. Especially, our research interests are mainly focused on developing functional foods and evaluating the efficiency to prevent sarcopenia using mealworm and soybean peptide. It is also applied to senior-friendly foods with global aging including Korea.

- 대두와 식이섬유(HPMC, 변성 펙틴)를 이용한 건강기능성식품 개발 (콩빵, 콩면, 비지쿠키, 비지증편 등) - 유바를 활용한 식물성 가식성 필름, 대체육 제품(비건 육포) 등 다양한 식품 소재 개발 - 대두 가공식품의 품목 다각화 및 대두소비 촉진을 위한 연구 진행 *Development of Health Functional Foods and Materials by Using Soybeans and Dietary Fiber In our laboratory, functional food products (such as, soy bread, soybean noodle, Biji(okara) cookie, Biji rice cake) are being developed by using soybeans and dietary fiber (HPMC or modified pectin). Especially, our research has been consistently progressed to not only make an attempt at diversifying soybean processed products which is limited to some processed items but facilitate sustainable consumption of soybeans. Currently our research interests are mainly focused to developing edible film by using yuba (film skin on liquid surface) made from soybeans during the boiling of soy milk and applying these developed yuba film to existing casing of meat processed products.

- 농림축산식품부 인증 제 31호 식생활 교육기관 (2013년 11월 인증) - 식생활 관련 교육내용과 교수법 연구 및 지속가능성을 위한 식생활 교육 프로그램 개발 관련 연구 진행 중 - 식생활교육 담당 전문가 (중·고등학교 가정교사 포함) 양성 과정 운영 *Development of Dietary Lifestyles Education Program Our laboratory designated as dietary education institution (No.31) by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) on November, 2013 is in charge of doing research on dietary lifestyles education. We give rational guidance as to education contents and ways of teaching dietary education and participate in Food Education Fair annually and help children attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the experiment. In addition, we are actively doing research on developing dietary lifestyles education for preparing for eating pattern change with approaching reunification and multiculturalism age.