Improvement of nutritional value in cereals

Biotechnological improvement of nutritional and therapeutic value of cultivated potato.

Genetic engineering is recognized as a powerful tool for altering the genetic characteristic of crop plants. Genetic engineering has tremendous potential in developing improved potato varieties with desired agronomic traits and has been utilized for improvement of several crop plants including potato to enhance essential amino acid, protein and lipids/carbohydrates contents as well to improve s...

Analytical and Nutritional Aspects of Folate in Cereals

Johansson, M. 2005. Analytical and Nutritional Aspects of Folate in Cereals. Doctoral dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7006-4 A good folate status before conception and during early pregnancy protects against child birth defects, particularly neural tube defects. According to dietary surveys, only a few percent of Swedish women reach the recommended daily intake of folate (400 μg). Swe...

Nutritional Management of Cereals Cropped Under Irrigation Conditions

Examining the nutritional quality of breakfast cereals marketed to children.

There are both public health and food industry initiatives aimed at increasing breakfast consumption among children, particularly the consumption of ready-to-eat cereals. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were identifiable differences in nutritional quality between cereals that are primarily marketed to children and cereals that are not marketed to children. Of the 161 ce...

Nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals. Are they improving?

The nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals is not systematically monitored despite the importance of breakfast for general health. We examined whether the nutritional quality of Australian breakfast cereals has improved between 2004 and 2010, and whether any change could be detected after the introduction of Daily Intake Guide (DIG) front-of-pack labelling. Supermarket surveys were...