Rye - Chapter 9

INTRODUCTION

NEWS

2007 is a special year, as two specific international events were organized concentrated on rye:

Nearly 120 people representing both science and industry from 18 countries attended the International ICC Conference on Rye 2007 on 11-14 March 2007 in Berlin, Germany. The congress was organised by ICC and Institute for Cereal Processing Ltd.(IGV) and supported by the HEALTHGRAIN EU project and the Nordic GRAINITY project. For more information and a gallery of various rye products please visit http://www.rye2007.com/en/

Rye Europe 2007 was organized by Roggenforum in Berlin 13-14. June 2007. It was attended by about 300 rye breeders and producers, and almost 30 lectures were given. The lectures (mainly in German language) are available at http://www.roggenforum.com

Presymposium: The 29th Nordic Cereal Congress. June 9-11 2006. Helsinki, Finland. Arranged by the Finnish Association for Cereal Scientists. Contact: Tuula Sontag-Strohm; E-mail cereal-06@helsinki.fi; Fax +358.9.191.58460; http://www.svs.fi

Dietary Fibre 2006. June 12-14. Multifunctional Complex of Components. Helsinki, Finland. Contact: Taina Hirvonen; fax +358.9.191.58475; E-mail df-2006@helsinki.fi; http://viikki.helsinki.fi/df2006

2006 AACC Annual Meeting, September 17 - 20, The Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.

2007 AACC Annual Meeting, October 7 - 10, San Antonio Convention Center, San Antonio, TX.

European cereals network

Cereals & Europe is a fresh, informal network for individual pan-European Cereal Scientists and Technologists. It is an regional section of The American Association of Cereal Chemists AACC.

Projects

GRAINITY
WHOLEGRAIN, RYE AND OAT – THE NORDIC OPPORTUNITY
A networking project in the Nordic innovation Centre
Functional Foods Focus Area 2006-2009

The objective is to provide a scientific discussion forum to assist in development of functional whole grain, rye and oat food products.

to form the scientific basis for development of healthy rye and oat based foods
to provide shared Nordic views to substantiate nutritional and health claims of grain foods
to extend the Nordic collaboration in functional cereal foods to the Baltic countries
to disseminate about the scientific results about rye and oat

LARGE EU PROJECT HAS BEEN STARTED: IMPROVING HEALTH BY EXPLOITING THE WHOLE GRAIN
Prof. Kaisa Poutanen from VTT is coordinating the HEALTHGRAIN Integrated Project with 43 partners from 15 European countries. The aim is to produce health-promoting cereal foods and ingredients of a high eating quality. https://www.healthgrain.org/pub/ . The project will develop techologies and experties from 2005-2010 to enable the development of new healthy cereal food.

RYE BRAN FOR HEALTH
Health effects of rye bran have inspired scientists in the Nordic countries for long. In 2004 a group of institutes started up a project that aims to increase the knowledge about the health effects and to develop new concepts of processing healthy and delicious products.

Rye bran is rich in dietary fibre and bioactive phytochemicals. The scientists will study in a 3-year Nordic project the effects of rye bran on the development of prostate cancer, on diabetic response and cardiovascular risk factors.

Rye's strong and bitter flavour has been an obstacle in its route to consumer's hearts. Therefore special attention will be paid to develop new concepts for processing of rye bran to enable production of new types of ingredients and foods with improved sensory properties and bioavailability of functional fibre components and bioactive phytochemicals.

The Rye Bran for Health project is funded by the Nordic Joint Committee for Agricultural Research, and it is coordinated by Dr. Afaf Kamal-Eldin from Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Also VTT, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå University, Helsinki University and Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences will take part in the project.

Further information:
Dr Afaf Kamal-Eldin, Afaf.Kamal-Eldin@lmv.slu.se

Publications

DISSERTATIONS

Linko-Parviainen A-M 2006. Cereal alkylresorsinols as dietary biomarkers – absorption and occurrence in biologival membranes. Institute for Preventive Medicine, Nutrition, and Cancer, Folkhälsan Research Center and Division of Clinical Chemistry, University of Helsinki.

PUBLICATIONS 2007

Michalska A, Ceglinska A, Amarowicz R, Piskula MK, Szawara-Nowak d, Zielinski H 2007. Antioxidant Contents and Antioxidative Properties of Traditional Rye Breads. J Agric Food Chem 55: 734-740.

Linko-Parvinen A-M, Landberg R, Tikkanen MJ, Adlercreutz H, Penalvo JL 2007. Alkylresorcinols from whole-grain wheat and rye are transported in human plasma lipoproteins. J Nutr 137:1137-1142.

Zielinski H, Ceglinska A, Michalska A 2007. Antioxidant contents and properties as quality indices of rye cultivars. Food Chem 104: 980-988.

PUBLICATIONS 2006

Aura A-M, Oikarinen S., Mutanen M., Heinonen S-M, Adlercreutz H.C.T., Virtanen H. & Poutanen KS 2006. Suitability of a batch in vitro fermentation model using human faecal microbiota for prediction of conversion of flaxseed lignans to enterolactone with reference to an in vivo rat model. Eur J Nutr 45: 45-51.

Bertram HC, Bach Knudsen KE, Serena A, Malmendal A, Nielsen NC, Frette XC, Andersen HJ 2006a. NMR-based metabonomic studies reveal changes in the biochemical profile of plasma and urine from pigs fed high-fibre rye bread. Br J Nutr 95: 955-962.

Bertram, HC, Duarte IF, Gil AM, Bach Knudsen KE, Lærke HN 2006b. Metabolic profiling of liver from hypercholesterolemic pigs fed rye- or wheat-fibre breads and of liver from normal pigs fed a standard diet – A high-resolution magic angle spinning ¹H NMR spectroscopic study (submitted).

Gallardo C, Jiménez L, García-Conesa M-T 2006. Hydroxycinnamic acid composition and in vitro antioxidant activity of selected grain fractions. Food Chem 99: 455-463.

Gumul D and Korus J 2006. Polyphenol content and antioxidant activity of rye bran extrudates produced at varying parameters of extrusion process. Electronic Journal of Polish Agricultural Universities. Vol 9, Issue 4, Topic Food Science and technology. http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume9/issue4/art-11.html

Hedelin M, Klint A, Chang ET, Bellocco R, Adami H, Bälter KA, Johansson J, Andersson S, Heinonen S-M, Adlercreutz H, Grönberg H 2006. Dietary phytoestrogen, serum enterolactone and risk of prostate cancer: The cancer prostate sweden study (sweden). Cancer Causes and Control 17, 169-180.

Kariluoto S., Aittamaa M., Korhola M., Salovaara H., Vahteristo L. & Piironen V. (2006) Effects of yeasts and bacteria on the levels of folates in rye sourdoughs. Int J Food Microbiol 106: 137-143.

Landberg R, Linko A-M, Kamal-Eldin A, Vessby B, Adlercreutz H and Åman P 2006. Human plasma kinetics and relative bioavailability of alkylresorcinols after intake of rye bran. J Nutr 136: 2760-2766.

Linko A-M, Ross AB, Kamal-Eldin A, Serena A, Bjornbak Kjaer AK, Jorgensen H, Penalvo JL, Adlercreutz H, Åman P, Bach Knudsen KE 2006. Kinetics of the appearance of cereal alkylresorcinols in pig plasma. B J Nutr 95: 282-287

Ragaee S, Abdel-Aal E-SM, Noaman M 2006. Antioxidant activity and nutrient composition of selected cereals for food use. Food Chem 98: 32-38.

Woodside JV, Campbell MJ, Denholm EE, Newton L, Honour JW, Morton MS, Young IS, Leathem JC 2006. Short-term phytoestrogen supplementation alters insulin-like growth factor profile but not lipid or antioxidant status. J Nutr Biochem 17: 211-215.

PUBLICATIONS 2005

Aura A-M, Karppinen S, Virtanen H, Forssell P, Heinonen S-M, Nurmi T, Adlercreutz H, Poutanen K 2005. Processing of rye bran influences both the fermentation of dietary fibre and the bioconversion of lignans by human faecal flora in vitro. J Sci Food Agric 85: 2085-2093.

Brejnholt SM, Tannock GW, Moller PL, Munro K, Tetens I 2005. A rye bran diet, rich in plant lignans, has no influence on the composition of the gut microflora in postmenopausal women. Microbial Ecology in health and disease 17: 21-27.

Erkkilä AT, Lichtenstein AH, Herrington DM, Mozaffarian D 2005. Cereal fiber and whole-grain intake are associated with reduced progression of coronary-artery atherosclerosis in postmenopausal women with coronary artery disease. American Heart Journal 150: 94-101.

Kristensen MB, Hels O, Tetens I 2005. No changes in serum enterolactone levels after eight weeks' intake of rye-bran products in healthy young men. Scandinavian J Nutr/Naringsforskning 49: 62-67.

Linko A-M, Adlercreutz H 2005. Whole-grain rye and wheat alkylresorcinols are incorporated into human erythrocyte membranes. B J Nutr 93: 11-13

Linko A-M, Juntunen KS, Mykkänen HM, Adlercreutz H 2005. Whole-grain rye bread consumption by women correlates with plasma alkylresorcinols and increases their concentration compared with low-fiber wheat bread. J Nutr 135, 580-583.

Mattila P, Pihlava J-M, Hellström J 2005. Contents of phenolic acids, alkyl- and alkenylresorcinols, and avenanthramides in commercial grain products. J Agric Food Chem 53: 8290-8295.

McCann MJ, Gill CIR, McGlynn H, Rowland IR 2005. Role of mammalian lignans in the prevention and treatment of prostate cancer. Nutrition and Cancer 52: 1-14.

Milder IE, Arts IC., van de Putte B, Venema DP, Hollman PC 2005. Lignan contents of dutch plant foods: A database including lariciresinol, pinoresinol, secoisolariciresinol and matairesinol. B J Nutr 93: 393-402.

Nyström L, Mäkinen M, Lampi A-M, Piironen, V 2005. Antioxidant activity of steryl ferulate extracts from rye and wheat bran. J Agric Food Chem 53: 2503-2510.

Penalvo JL, Haajanen KM, Botting N, Adlercreutz H 2005.Quantification of Lignans in Food Using Isotope Dilution Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. J Agric Food Chem 53: 9342-9347.

Ross AB, Becker W, Chen Y, Kamal-Eldin A, Åman P 2005. Intake of alkylresorcinols from wheat and rye in the United Kingdom and Sweden. B J Nutr 94: 496-499.

Schulze MB, Hu FB 2005. Primary prevention of diabetes: What can be done and how much can be prevented? Annual Review of Public Health 26: 445-467.

Qi L, Rimm E, Liu S, Rifai N, Hu FB 2005. Dietary glycemic index, glycemic load, cereal fiber, and plasma adiponectin concentration in diabetic men. Diabetes Care 28: 1022-1028.

Wikström P, Bylund A, Zhang J-, Hallmans G, Stattin P, Bergh A 2005. Rye bran diet increases epithelial cell apoptosis and decreases epithelial cell volume in TRAMP (transgenic adenocarcinoma of the mouse prostate) tumors. Nutrition and Cancer 53, 111-116.

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