Xinya Wang: Breaking the Wall of Calcium Deficiency
Participant in 2025 Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand.
Xinya Wang, Riddet Institute, Massey University
Calcium deficiency is widespread across countries and genders. While fortified foods aim to increase intake through added calcium salts, the role of food structure in calcium release remains unclear. We developed a dynamic in vitro digestion model (oral, gastric, intestinal) to investigate calcium release from various food matrices and identify structure-dependent pathways for efficient calcium delivery and absorption.
Xinya Wang joined the Riddet Institute in 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on the digestive fate of foods and explores the role of food structure in the release and absorption of micronutrients and bioactive compounds in the gastrointestinal tract. She completed both her Master’s and PhD degrees at the University of Guelph, Canada, and earned her Bachelor of Engineering from Jiangnan University, China.