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Dr. Luke Howard
Professor
Phone: (479) 575-2978
Email: lukeh@uark.edu
Office: N-206 |
| Education: |
• PhD: University of Arkansas, Food Science
• MS: University of Arkansas, Food Science
• BS: Purdue University, Horticulture Production
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| Courses Taught: |
• FDSC 1103: Introduction to Food Science 
• FDSC 4203: Quality Evaluation and Control
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| Research Areas: |
Functional Foods Research Program
• Effect of processing on color, flavor, texture, and nutrient content of horticulture crops; identification and characterization of bioactive phytonutrients and antioxidant capacity in horticultural and cereal crops; and critical fluid technologies for extraction of phytonutrients.
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| List of Recent Publications: |
Ju, Z.Y. and L.R. Howard. 2005. Subcritical water and sulfured water extraction of anthocyanins and other phenolics from dried red grape skin. J. Food Sci. 70:S270-S276.
Cho, M.J., L.R. Howard, R.L. Prior and J.R. Clark. 2005. Flavonol glycosides and antioxidant capacity of various blackberry and blueberry genotypes determined by high-performance liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. J. Sci. Food Agric. 85:2149-2158.
Pandjaitan, N., Howard, L.R., Morelock, T. and M.I. Gil. 2005. Antioxidant capacity and phenolic content of spinach as affected by genetics and maturation. J. Agric. Food Chem. 53:8618-8623.
Lam, H.S., Proctor, A., Howard, L. and Cho, M.J. 2005. Rapid fruit extracts antioxidant capacity determination by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. J. Food Sci. 70:C545-C549. |
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