Abstract

During recent years there has been increased interest in oats and in foods made from this cereal, which is rich in soluble dietary fibre (mainly mixed-linkage (1 -> 3,1 -> 4)-beta-D-glucan, in the following referred to as beta-glucan). This perspective paper discusses oats, the health effects of oats, some possible health claims for oat foods and the content, structure and some properties of oat beta-glucan. In the Nordic countries this is a rapidly growing sector within the agro-industrial chain.

Published in

Agro Food Industry Hi-tech
2008, Volume: 19, number: 2, pages: 25-27
Publisher: TEKNOSCIENZE PUBL

SLU Authors

• Åman, Per

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Andersson, Annica

  • Department of Molecular Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Food Science


Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/20073