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Kristi Crowe-White, PhD, RD

Professor and Dietitian
The University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Kristi Crowe-White, PhD, RD is a professor in the Department of Human Nutrition at the University of Alabama. She received her PhD at the University of Maine where she held a doctoral fellowship with the National Science Foundation. Her research focuses on bioactive food compounds and dietary patterns on gut microbial composition and gut-derived metabolites in cardiometabolic disease, especially in aging. Dr. Crowe-White has funding from agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, and the Office of Dietary Supplements, as well as the American Heart Association and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. As a result of this body of research, she is the lead author on the first-ever dietary guideline for bioactive food compounds (flavan-3-ols) and the lead author on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Position Paper on Functional Foods. Additionally, she serves as a media spokesperson for the Institute of Food Technologists to advance the scientific understanding of nutrition in the prevention of chronic disease.

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