Description
GRAINS4HEALTH is an interdisciplinary research group focused on grains research to promote health through nutrition. Our group study legumes, cereals, pseudo-cereals and their by-products to obtain safe, quality and convenient food and functional ingredients through sustainable and innovative strategies. We pay special dedication to the optimization, modeling, development and validation of innovative processing technologies to promote the formation of biologically active compounds that contribute to reducing the risk of developing chronic diseases and to improve the safety and nutritional quality of gluten-free foods for celiac people.
Objetives
The main objective of the GRAINS4HEALH group is to produce healthy ingredients and foods from grains-based products and by-products of agri-food interest through sustainable technological approaches that mainly include germination, fermentation and enzymatic hydrolysis.
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Patents
- Inventores / Inventors: J. Frias, C. Martínez-Villaluenga, P.J. Caceres, E. Peñas, L. Amigo. Título de la invención / Title of invention: Procedimiento de obtención de granos de arroz integral germinado y productos derivados de los mismos que comprenden compuestos biológicamente activos / Procedure for obtaining germinated brown rice grains and derived products that comprise biologically active compounds. Número de solicitud / Application number: P201430115
- Fecha de prioridad / Priority date: 30 enero 2014
- Entidad titular / Owner entity: CSIC, Serrano 117, 28006 Madrid
Personnel
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Keywords
Technological processes, Functional ingredients, Legumes, Germination, Fermentation, Bioactivity