Agricultural and Life Sciences (IFAS)
Borum Lab
Led by Peggy Borum · Food Science and Human Nutrition
What we study
The Borum Lab studies food as medicine, especially precision ketogenic therapy for epilepsy. Recent student projects analyze the nutrient content of ketogenic foods and recipes and propose a measure of their ketogenic potential.
What working here is like
- Computational
- No organisms (data only)
- Coding required
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
Food as Precision Medicine: Ketogenic Diets in Epileptic Patients
The lab looks at how different food brands change the amounts of carbs, fats, and proteins in foods used for ketogenic diets. Students compare brands to see how small differences affect the diet’s ability to keep patients in ketosis and control seizures.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 41
Ketogenic/Anti-ketogenic Potential of Food in Precision Medicine
Researchers analyze the nutrient content of foods in twenty keto recipes, calculate several diet‑strength measures, and propose a new metric (KAP%) to better define ketogenic therapy for personalized medicine.
From the Spring 2025 UF Undergraduate Research Symposium · abstract book, p. 35
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Food Rx: Integrating horticulture research to improve nutrition and health
2025 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Argues that farming research can help fix the U.S. obesity and diabetes crisis by improving food.
- Vitamins are Indeed Vital Amines: A Discussion of 3 Deficiencies With Neurologic Manifestations
2021 · Child Neurology Open
Describes how vitamin deficiencies can cause vision and brain problems, not just inflammation.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
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