Knud Erik Bach Knudsen (KEBK) is professor in Basic Nutrition at Aarhus University, Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Denmark. For more than 40 years, KEBK has been working with different aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals. Working areas have been development of analytical methods for the characterisation of carbohydrates in feeds, foods and digesta materials, analyses of carbohydrates in a wide variety of animal and human foods and studies on nutritional, physiological and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals in non-ruminant mammals. After completing his Ph.D., KEBK worked at the Carlsberg Research Centre and The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen before joining the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences; from 2007 Aarhus University. He has been author and co-author of more than 305 papers in peer-reviewed journals and 117 contributions to proceedings and book chapters, mainly related to analytical, nutritional, physiological and health aspects of carbohydrates and phytochemicals.