The blood-cholesterol-lowering effects of beta-glucan--the soluble oat fiber--is well known, but up to now it has been difficult to obtain beta-glucan-rich fractions that are feasible for food applications, according to VTT Technical Research Center (Espoo, Finland, edlinks.che.com/6902-543).
In collaboration with Agrifood Research Finland (MTT; Jokioinen, Finland), VTT has developed a process to efficiently separate beta-glucan from oats as well as for producing oat protein, starch and lipid fractions.
In the first …
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