Nwabisa Mehlomakulu

Biography

Dr. Nwabisa Mehlomakulu is a lecturer at the department of Food Science, University of Pretoria. She currently lectures fruit and vegetable processing. Her research focus is on fruit and vegetables processing – post harvest quality and preservation of fresh produce. She has experience in yeast biotechnology having worked on non-Saccharomycesyeasts as either cheese starter cultures or sources of antimicrobial compounds and lowering ethanol content in wine. Her research interest is food preservation using biological methods and processing methods. 

Research Interest

Fruit and vegetable processing