Current Research Topics

• Food Chemistry

• Green extraction of bioactive compounds from by-products discarded from food manufacture.

• Development of functional food and food fortification

• Increasing the bioactivity of bioactive compound

• Development of industrial processing of Thai cocoa

Publications (First or corresponding author only)

              Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Donporn Wongwaiwech, Tipawan Thongsook, Monthana Weerawatanakorn. (2025). Extracting phospholipids from gum using liquified dimethyl ether versus supercritical fluid carbon dioxide. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research.20,101772.

              Donporn Wongwaiwech, Nutthaporn Majai, Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Chi-Tang Ho, Monthana Weerawatanakorn. (2025). Comparison of the policosanol contents in commercial health foods and policosanol stability in enriched rice bran oil. Food Production, Processing and Nutrition. 7(1), 25

              Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Yen-Chun Koh, Pin-Yu Ho, Min-Hsiung Pan, Monthana Weerawatanakorn. (2025). Fatty Acid Esterification of Octacosanol Attenuates Triglyceride and Cholesterol Synthesis in Mice. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73, 2430-2442.

              Monthana Weerawatanakorn, Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Yen-Chun Koh, Min-Hsiung Pan. (2024). Exploring phytochemical mechanisms in the prevention of cholesterol dysregulation: a review. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 72(13),6833-6849

              Donporn Wongwaiwech, Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Chi-Tang Ho, Shiming Li, Nutthaporn Majai, Tepsuda Rungrat, Kawee Sujipuli, Min-Hsiung Pan, Monthana Weerawatanakorn. (2023). Bioactives from crude rice bran oils extracted using green technology. Molecules, 28(6), 2457; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules28062457

              Sudthida Kamchonemenukool, Donporn Wongwaiwech, Tipawan Thongsook, Monthana Weerawatanakorn. (2023). Subcritical liquified dimethyl ether and supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction of gamma oryzanol from rice bran acid oil. Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 14, 100672

              M Weerawatanakorn, S He, CH Chang, YC Koh, MJ Yang, MH Pan. (2023). High Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) Oolong Tea Alleviates High-Fat Diet-Induced Metabolic Disorders in Mice. ACS omega. ACS omega 8 (37), 33997-34007

              Kamchonemenukool, S., Ho, C. T., Boonnoun, P., Li, S., Pan, M. H., Klangpetch, W., & Weerawatanakorn, M. (2022). High Levels of Policosanols and Phytosterols from Sugar Mill Waste by Subcritical Liquefied Dimethyl Ether. Foods, 11(19), 2937. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11192937 (Scopus Q1)

              Wongwaiwech, D., Kamchonemenukool, S., Ho, C. T., Detyothin, S., Kasemweerasan, P., & Weerawatanakorn, M. (2022). Analytical Procedural Validation of Policosanol Compounds. Food Analytical Methods, 15(7), 2059-2068.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-022-02265-8  (Scopus Q2)

              Wongwaiwech, D., Kamchonemenukool, S., Ho, C. T., Li, S., Thongsook, T., Majai, N., Premjet, D., Sujipuli, K., & Weerawatanakorn, M. (2022). “Nutraceutical Difference between Two Popular Thai Namwa Cultivars Used for Sun Dried Banana Products.  Molecules, 27(17), 5675. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27175675 (Scopus Q1)

              Weerawatanakorn, M., Asikin, Y, Kamchonemenukool, S., Tamaki, H., Takara, K., &
Wada, K. (2021). Physicochemical, antioxidant, volatile component, and mass spectrometry-based electronic nose analyses differentiated unrefined non-centrifugal cane, palm, and coconut sugars. Journal of Food Measurement and Characterization, 15, 1563–1577. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11694-020-00749-x  (Scopus Q2)

              Meerod, K., Weerawatanakorn, M., & Pansak, W. (2020). Effect of liming process on physicochemical properties and phytochemical components of non-centrifugal sugar from different sugarcane cultivars. Agricultural Research. 9, 35-45
(Scopus Q2)

              Wongwaiwech, D., Weerawatanakorn, M., & Boonnoun, P. (2020). Subcritical dimethyl ether extraction as a simple method to extract nutraceuticals from byproducts from rice bran oil manufacture. Scientific Reports, 10, 21007 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78011-z  (Scopus Q1)