Grainity symposium preceding C&E Spring Meeting 2009 — presentations now available

25 March 2009 at 9-12, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

GRAINITY PROJECT SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM:
Nordic experience and approaches on using grains for health

GRAINITY - Wholegrain, rye and oats, the Nordic opportunity - is a project financed by Nordic Innovation Centre as part of the functional foods focus area in 2006-2008. The objective is to provide a scientific discussion forum and platform to assist in development of healthy rye and oat based foods, and to discuss related nutrition communication as well as their role in the dietary strategies. In this satellite symposium experiences and research results of the consortium are featured both from a scientific and application points of view.

Programme:

9:00-10:20
I  Wholegrain, rye and oats - Nordic academia-industry interaction in a 15-year perspective; Ingmar Börjesson, Lantmännen, Sweden
II  Dietary fibre complex of rye grain Per Åman; SLU, Sweden
III  The "rye factor" - rye bread has beneficial effects on glucose homeostasis Kaisa Poutanen; VTT and University of Kuopio, Finland
IV Wholegrain fibre as substrate for butyrate formation; Knud Erik Bach Knudsen, Aarhus University, Denmark

10:40-12:00
V Alkylresorcinols in wholegrain rye and wheat as biomarkers of cereal fibre intake; Herman Adlercreutz, University of Helsinki, Finland
VI Impact of energy and rye bran intake on incidence and mortality of prostate cancer: Can tumour progression be inhibited by changes in life style?; Göran Hallmans, University of Umeå, Sweden
VII  Rye and oats - innovative processing and ingredients; Pekka Lehtinen, VTT, Finland
VIII Exploitation and communication of research - how is it reflected in products and consumption figures; Sampsa Haarasilta, Fazer Bakeries, Finland