Method and means for improving bowel health
AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorsAnthony Richard Bird, Gulay Saygat Mann, Sadequr Rahman, Ahmed Regina, Zhongyi Li, David Lloyd Topping, Matthew Kennedy Morell
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Abstract
A method and composition for improving one or more indicators of bowel health or metabolic health in a mammalian animal. This comprises the delivering to the gastrointestinal tract of the animal an effective amount of an altered wheat starch in the form of or derived from the grain of a wheat plant. The proportion of amylose in the starch of the grain is at least 30% and/or the grain comprises a reduced level of SBEIIa enzyme activity and/or protein relative to wild-type grain.
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A process for producing a food or beverage, comprising the steps of obtaining wheat grain having a proportion of amylose in its starch of at least 30% (w/w), at least 1% of the starch being resistant starch, and a reduced level of starch branching enzyme IIa (SBEIIa) relative to wild-type wheat grain, optionally processing the grain to produce flour, wholemeal, semolina or starch, and mixing the grain, flour, wholemeal, semolina or starch with another ingredient, thereby producing the food or beverage.
A food or beverage comprising wheat grain having a proportion of amylose in its starch of at least 30% (w/w), at least 1% of the starch being resistant starch, and a reduced level of starch branching enzyme IIa (SBEIIa) relative to wild-type wheat grain, or flour, wholemeal, semolina or starch produced from the grain, and another ingredient.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.