Merja Saarinen

Research Manager, Senior Scientist
  • Phone number +358295326506
  • Email address merja.saarinen@luke.fi
  • Address Tietotie 4 31600 JOKIOINEN

Valorising digestate as bio-based fertiliser next to biogas: Environmental life cycle costing of three farm-scale anaerobic co-digestion scenarios

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2026

From evidence to action: implementing the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations in national policy

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2025

Policy Brief: The sustainability of the food system can be improved by using nutrition as a basis for comparing the environmental impact of food

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2025

Sociodemographic and regional differences in dietary climate impact: findings from Finnish population surveys

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2025

System expansion is needed to handle the multifunctionality of food items in environmental impact assessment

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2025

Integrating nutrition into environmental impact assessments reveals limited sustainable food options within planetary boundaries

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2025

The impact of adhering to a more plant-based menu on food waste at Finnish early childhood education and care centres

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2025

Re-evaluating the importance of protein quality : insights on its limited role in multi-nutrient functional units

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2025

Dietary climate impact correlates ambiguously with health biomarkers– a randomised controlled trial in healthy Finnish adults

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2025

Adapting the product group-specific nutritional functional units to the Spanish context

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2025

Advancing methods for comparative nutritional LCA of milk and plant-based milk substitutes

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2025

Climate impact dataset of 1233 ingredients to promote sustainability of food service operators in Finland

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2024

Reducing the carbon footprint of diets across socio-demographic groups in Finland: a mathematical optimisation study

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2024

Challenges and opportunities when moving food production and consumption toward sustainable diets in the Nordics: a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023

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2024

Environmental sustainability of food production and consumption in the Nordic and Baltic region : a scoping review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023

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2024

Assessing the Cost of Nutritionally Adequate and Low-Climate Impact Diets in Finland

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2024

Validating nutrient selection for product-group-specific nutrient indices for use as functional units in life cycle assessment of foods

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2024

DeliSoil- a new EU Horizon funded Mission Soil project

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2024

A site-specific prediction model for nitrogen leaching in conventional and organic farming

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2024

Extending the product-group-specific approach in nutritional life cycle assessment

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Product-group-specific nutrient index as a nutritional functional unit for the Life Cycle Assessment of protein-rich foods

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Soil carbon plays a role in the climate impact of diet and its mitigation: the Finnish case

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2023

Land-use-driven biodiversity impacts of diets—a comparison of two assessment methods in a Finnish case study

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2023

Cascade vision : Regionally adaptive circular bioeconomy – added value, wellbeing and resource wisdom with cascade processing

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2023