2 nd International Conference on FOOD-OMICS 61 phenolic content. As the moisture content significantly varied among different samples, the bioactivity was calculated on the basis of fresh weight of the original sample. Results and Discussion. On fresh weight basis, some BSA traditional foods showed a considerably strong antioxidant response. The antioxidant capacity was therefore normalized per serving size, and compared to total phenolic content. The relations between the two characters have been critically examined for the whole pool of foods or individual categories. This characterization of traditional foods of BSA may enhance the appeal and knowledge of these foods also outside the areas of origin, and contribute to both their on-site preservation and the opening of update commercial opportunities for some of them. This study was funded by project BASEFOOD “Sustainable exploitation of bioactive components from the Black Sea Area traditional foods” (EC Contract no: FP7-KBBE-227118). N-3 LC-PUFAs modulate global gene expression in the left ventricle of spontaneously hypertensive rats Dario de Biase 1,2 , Francesca Danesi 3 , Annalisa Astolfi 4 , Alberto Goldoni 5 , Luca Morandi 2 , Andrea Pession 6 , Annalisa Pession 1 , Alessandra Bordoni 3 1 Department of Experimental Pathology, University of Bologna (Italy); 2 Department of Haematology and Oncological Sciences “L. and A. Seragnoli”, Section of Anatomic Pathology, Bellaria Hospital, University of Bologna (Italy); 3 Department of Food Science - University of Bologna (Italy); 4 Interdepartmental Centre for Cancer Research “G. Prodi” - University of Bologna (Italy); 5 European Food Safety Authority consultant; 6 Department of Paediatrics, Haematology and Oncology Unit “Lalla Seragnoli”, St. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital - University of Bologna (Italy) Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat (SHR) provides a useful experimental model of pressure overload that gradually develops hypertension. This model has demonstrated many similarities with human essential hypertension, including the development of cardiac hypertrophy (CH) [1]. In a previous work we demonstrated that long chain n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs), namely eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), modulate the expression of genes related to CH in cultured cardiomyocytes [2]. Recently it has