Maria Stewart
Maria
Stewart
Adjunct Faculty
Campus:
- College of Integrative Medicine and Health Sciences
- Department
- Integrative and Functional Nutrition
- Institution
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Saybrook University
- Biography
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I have always had a connection with food. From growing up on a commercial vegetable farm in Minnesota, to being an elite endurance athlete, to completing my PhD in Nutritional Science, to finding a professional home in the food & nutrition research community, food and health have been central to my life. I have extended that full-circle with the goat micro-dairy my husband and I own and operate in central New Jersey.
Professionally, I have held positions as tenured faculty at the University of Hawaii and as director nutritional ingredient innovation within the food industry. Within both the academic sector and the industry sector, I have designed and managed clinical trials to study the effect of diet on health outcomes. My specific research areas include glycemic response to specialty carbohydrates, dietary fiber's impact on the gut microbiota, bioactive compounds and health, and micronutrient bioavailability. I have published more than 35 peer-reviewed articles based on my research, with a selection of publications listed below, and I am currently a contributing author to the monthly publication Environmental Nutrition. I look forward to contributing to the community at Saybrook University and enabling students to pursue their educational and professional goals.
A full listing of publications, grants received, and courses taught is available upon request.
- Areas of Expertise
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Area Expertise Nutritional Science Dietary Supplements and Herbal Medicine Food Science Nutrigenomics - Education History
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Degree Institution Year PhD University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 2008 MS University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 2005 BS Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 2003 - Professional Memberships
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Role Organization Member Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Member American Society of Nutrition Member Institute of Food Technologists - Publications
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Journal Patterson MA, Maiya M, Stewart ML (2020). Resistant Starch Content in Foods Commonly Consumed in the United States: A Narrative Review. J Acad Nutr Diet., 120 (2), 230-244.
Du Y, Wu Y, Xiao D, Guzman G, Stewart ML, Gourineni V, Burton-Freeman B, Edirisinghe I. (2020). Food prototype containing resistant starch type 4 on postprandial glycemic response in healthy adults. Food Funct, 11 (3), 2231-2237.
Stewart ML, Wilcox ML, Bell M, Buggia MA, Maki KC (2018). ype-4 Resistant Starch in Substitution for Available Carbohydrate Reduces Postprandial Glycemic Response and Hunger in Acute, Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled Study. Nutrients, 10 (2), 129.
Gourineni V, Stewart ML, Skorge R, Sekula BC (2017). Slowly Digestible Carbohydrate for Balanced Energy: In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence. Nutrients, 9 (11), E1230.
Dahl WJ, Stewart ML (2015). Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Health implications of dietary fiber. J Acad Nutr Dietetics, 115 (11), 1861-1870.
Stewart, ML. Schroeder, NM (2013). Dietary Treatments for Childhood Constipation: Efficacy of Dietary Fiber and Whole Grains. Nutr Rev, 71 (2), 98-109.