HEALTHGRAIN is the acronym for
"Exploiting Bioactivity of European Cereal Grains for Improved Nutrition and Health Benefits",
an Integrated Project of the European Union's Sixth Framework Programme's "Food Quality and Safety" activity (Priority 5).
The HEALTHGRAIN Integrated Project aims to improve the well-being and reduce the risk of metabolic
syndrome related diseases in Europe by increasing the intake of protective compounds in whole grains or their
fractions. The aim is to produce health promoting and safe cereal foods and ingredients of high eating quality. A
whole grain diet is increasingly demonstrated to be protective against development of diet related disorders such as
cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. HEALTHGRAIN will carry out an integrated, multidisciplinary effort
to establish the variation, process-induced changes and human metabolism of bioactive compounds in the major
European bread grains, and to reveal the physiological mechanisms underlying their significance in prevention of
metabolic syndrome and related diseases. The target bioactive compounds are vitamins (folate, tocols, choline etc.),
phytochemicals (lignans, sterols, alkylresorcinols, phenolic acids) and indigestible carbohydrates. Also other
product characteristics that may add to the metabolic benefits of whole grain products are promoted.
The work is carried out in 17 work packages, distributed within
five modules:
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Companies can be linked to HEALTHGRAIN by joining the Industrial Platform.
HEALTHGRAIN Basic data:
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