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Majumdar A, Gil-González AB, Barjuan Grau A, Sardari RRR, Larsson O, Thyagarajan A, Hansson A, Hernández-Hernández O, Olsson O, Zambrano JA. Macromolecular characterization of high β-glucan oat lines. Heliyon 2024; 10:e24552. [PMID: 38312573 PMCID: PMC10834800 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2023] [Revised: 12/13/2023] [Accepted: 01/10/2024] [Indexed: 02/06/2024] Open
Abstract
Oat (Avena sativa) is a cereal grain rich in fibers, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Oats have been linked to several health benefits, such as lowering blood cholesterol levels, counteracting cardiovascular disease and regulating blood sugar levels. This study aimed to characterize two new oat lines with high β-glucan content emanating from ethyl methyl sulphonate mutagenesis on the Lantmännen elite variety Belinda. Two of the mutated lines, and the mother variety Belinda, were profiled for β-glucan, arabinoxylan, total dietary fiber and starch composition. In addition, total lipid and protein content, amino acid composition and β-glucan molecular weights were analyzed. The high levels of β-glucan resulted in a significant increase in total dietary fiber, but no correlation could be established between higher or lower levels of the assayed macromolecules, i.e., between arabinoxylan-, starch-, lipid- or protein levels in the mutated lines compared to the reference. The results indicate separate biosynthetic pathways for β-glucans and other macromolecules and an independent regulation of the different polysaccharides studied. Therefore, ethyl methyl sulphonate mutagenesis can be used to increase levels of multiple macromolecules in the same line.
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Affiliation(s)
- Abhinav Majumdar
- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Department of Biotechnology, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- CropTailorAB, c/o Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- CropTailorAB, c/o Department of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Pure and Applied Biochemistry, Lund University, Box 124, SE 22100, Lund, Sweden
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Ballance S, Lu Y, Zobel H, Rieder A, Knutsen SH, Dinu VT, Christensen BE, Ulset AS, Schmid M, Maina N, Potthast A, Schiehser S, Ellis PR, Harding SE. Inter-laboratory analysis of cereal beta-glucan extracts of nutritional importance: An evaluation of different methods for determining weight-average molecular weight and molecular weight distribution. Food Hydrocoll 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2022.107510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Telle-Hansen VH, Gaundal L, Høgvard B, Ulven SM, Holven KB, Byfuglien MG, Måge I, Knutsen SH, Ballance S, Rieder A, Rud I, Myhrstad MCW. A Three-Day Intervention With Granola Containing Cereal Beta-Glucan Improves Glycemic Response and Changes the Gut Microbiota in Healthy Individuals: A Crossover Study. Front Nutr 2022; 9:796362. [PMID: 35578615 PMCID: PMC9106798 DOI: 10.3389/fnut.2022.796362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Intake of soluble fibers including beta-glucan, is known to improve post-prandial glycemic response. The mechanisms have been attributed to the viscous gel forming in the stomach and small intestine, giving a longer absorption time. However, recent evidence suggests a link between intake of beta-glucan and improved glycemic regulation at subsequent meals through the gut microbiota. We investigated the short-term effect of granola with different amounts of cereal beta-glucan on glycemic response and gut microbiota. After a two-week run-in period (baseline), fourteen healthy, normal weight adults completed a dose-response dietary crossover study. Different amounts of cereal beta-glucan (low: 0.8 g, medium: 3.2 g and high: 6.6 g) were provided in granola and eaten with 200 ml low-fat milk as an evening meal for three consecutive days. Blood glucose and insulin were measured fasted and after an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) the following day, in addition to peptide YY (PYY) and glucagon-like peptide (GLP-2), fasting short chain fatty acids (SCFA) in blood, breath H2, and gut microbiota in feces. Only the intervention with medium amounts of beta-glucan decreased blood glucose and insulin during OGTT compared to baseline. Fasting PYY increased with both medium and high beta-glucan meal compared to the low beta-glucan meal. The microbiota and SCFAs changed after all three interventions compared to baseline, where acetate and butyrate increased, while propionate was unchanged. Highest positive effect size after intake of beta-glucan was found with Haemophilus, followed by Veillonella and Sutterella. Furthermore, we found several correlations between different bacterial taxa and markers of glycemic response. In summary, intake of granola containing 3.2 g cereal beta-glucan as an evening meal for three consecutive days reduced the glycemic response after an OGTT 0-180 min and changed gut microbiota composition. Since we cannot rule out that other fiber types have contributed to the effect, more studies are needed to further explore the effect of cereal beta-glucan on glycemic regulation. Clinical Trial Registration [www.clinicaltrials.gov], identifier [NCT03293693].
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- Vibeke H. Telle-Hansen
- Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Department of Endocrinology, Morbid Obesity and Preventive Medicine, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway
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- Nofima AS (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Ås, Norway
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- Nofima AS (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Ås, Norway
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- Nofima AS (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Ås, Norway
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- Nofima AS (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Ås, Norway
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- Nofima AS (Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research), Ås, Norway
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- Department of Nursing and Health Promotion, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway
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Maina NH, Rieder A, De Bondt Y, Mäkelä-Salmi N, Sahlstrøm S, Mattila O, Lamothe LM, Nyström L, Courtin CM, Katina K, Poutanen K. Process-Induced Changes in the Quantity and Characteristics of Grain Dietary Fiber. Foods 2021; 10:foods10112566. [PMID: 34828846 PMCID: PMC8624990 DOI: 10.3390/foods10112566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2021] [Revised: 10/08/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Daily use of wholegrain foods is generally recommended due to strong epidemiological evidence of reduced risk of chronic diseases. Cereal grains, especially the bran part, have a high content of dietary fiber (DF). Cereal DF is an umbrella concept of heterogeneous polysaccharides of variable chemical composition and molecular weight, which are combined in a complex network in cereal cell walls. Cereal DF and its distinct components influence food digestion throughout the gastrointestinal tract and influence nutrient absorption and other physiological reactions. After repeated consumption of especially whole grain cereal foods, these effects manifest in well-demonstrated health benefits. As cereal DF is always consumed in the form of processed cereal food, it is important to know the effects of processing on DF to understand, safeguard and maximize these health effects. Endogenous and microbial enzymes, heat and mechanical energy during germination, fermentation, baking and extrusion destructurize the food and DF matrix and affect the quantity and properties of grain DF components: arabinoxylans (AX), beta-glucans, fructans and resistant starch (RS). Depolymerization is the most common change, leading to solubilization and loss of viscosity of DF polymers, which influences postprandial responses to food. Extensive hydrolysis may also remove oligosaccharides and change the colonic fermentability of DF. On the other hand, aggregation may also occur, leading to an increased amount of insoluble DF and the formation of RS. To understand the structure–function relationship of DF and to develop foods with targeted physiological benefits, it is important to invest in thorough characterization of DF present in processed cereal foods. Such understanding also demands collaborative work between food and nutritional sciences.
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- Ndegwa H. Maina
- Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland; (N.M.-S.); (K.K.)
- Correspondence:
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- Nofima, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, PB 210, N-1431 Ås, Norway; (A.R.); (S.S.)
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- Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (Y.D.B.); (C.M.C.)
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- Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland; (N.M.-S.); (K.K.)
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- Nofima, Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, PB 210, N-1431 Ås, Norway; (A.R.); (S.S.)
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- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 Espoo, Finland; (O.M.); (K.P.)
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- Nestlé Institute of Materials Science, Nestlé Research, Société des Produits Nestlé S.A. Route du Jorat 57, 1000 Lausanne 26, 1800 Vevey, Switzerland;
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, Schmelzbergstrasse 9, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;
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- Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Biochemistry, KU Leuven, 3001 Leuven, Belgium; (Y.D.B.); (C.M.C.)
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- Department of Food and Nutrition, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 66, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland; (N.M.-S.); (K.K.)
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- VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 Espoo, Finland; (O.M.); (K.P.)
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Marasca E, Boulos S, Nyström L. Bile acid-retention by native and modified oat and barley β-glucan. Carbohydr Polym 2020; 236:116034. [PMID: 32172850 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2020.116034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2019] [Revised: 01/15/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Foods rich in cereal β-glucan are efficient dietary tools to help reduce serum cholesterol levels and hence the risk of cardiovascular diseases. However, β-glucan undergoes various reactions during food processing, which alter its viscous properties and interactions with components of the gastrointestinal tract. It has been proposed in the literature that oxidation and partial hydrolysis increase β-glucan's bile acid-binding activity, and therefore its effectiveness in lowering cholesterol. Here, the passage kinetics of a bile salt mix across a dialysis membrane was studied with or without oat and barley β-glucan extracts, native or modified (partial hydrolysis and oxidations by sodium periodate or TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl)). Bile acid-retention turned out to be purely a function of viscosity, with the most viscous native extracts exhibiting the strongest retardation of bile acid permeation. Opposite of what was suggested in the literature, oxidation and molecular weight reduction do not seem to increase the bile acid-binding capability of β-glucan.
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- Elena Marasca
- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Holland C, Ryden P, Edwards CH, Grundy MML. Plant Cell Walls: Impact on Nutrient Bioaccessibility and Digestibility. Foods 2020; 9:E201. [PMID: 32079083 PMCID: PMC7074226 DOI: 10.3390/foods9020201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 02/11/2020] [Accepted: 02/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Cell walls are important structural components of plants, affecting both the bioaccessibility and subsequent digestibility of the nutrients that plant-based foods contain. These supramolecular structures are composed of complex heterogeneous networks primarily consisting of cellulose, and hemicellulosic and pectic polysaccharides. The composition and organization of these different polysaccharides vary depending on the type of plant tissue, imparting them with specific physicochemical properties. These properties dictate how the cell walls behave in the human gastrointestinal tract, and how amenable they are to digestion, thereby modulating nutrient release from the plant tissue. This short narrative review presents an overview of our current knowledge on cell walls and how they impact nutrient bioaccessibility and digestibility. Some of the most relevant methods currently used to characterize the food matrix and the cell walls are also described.
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- Claire Holland
- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Division, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AR, UK;
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK; (P.R.); (C.H.E.)
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- Quadram Institute Bioscience, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7UA, UK; (P.R.); (C.H.E.)
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- School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Division, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Reading RG6 6AR, UK;
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Extraction of soluble β-glucan from oat and barley fractions: Process efficiency and dispersion stability. J Cereal Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcs.2018.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Kurek MA, Karp S, Stelmasiak A, Pieczykolan E, Juszczyk K, Rieder A. Effect of natural flocculants on purity and properties of β-glucan extracted from barley and oat. Carbohydr Polym 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.01.090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Rieder A, Knutsen SH, Ballance S. In vitro digestion of beta-glucan rich cereal products results in extracts with physicochemical and rheological behavior like pure beta-glucan solutions – A basis for increased understanding of in vivo effects. Food Hydrocoll 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2016.12.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Impact of hydrothermal and mechanical processing on dissolution kinetics and rheology of oat β-glucan. Carbohydr Polym 2017; 166:387-397. [PMID: 28385246 PMCID: PMC5388193 DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.02.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Revised: 02/07/2017] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Oat mixed-linkage β-glucan has been shown to lower fasting blood cholesterol concentrations due notably to an increase in digesta viscosity in the proximal gut. To exert its action, the polysaccharide has to be released from the food matrix and hydrated. The dissolution kinetics of β-glucan from three oat materials, varying in their structure, composition and degree of processing, was investigated by incubating the oats at 37°C over multiple time points (up to 72h). The samples were analysed for β-glucan content, weight-average molecular weight and rheological behaviour. Regardless of the materials studied and the processing applied, the solubilisation of β-glucan was not complete. Mechanical and hydrothermal processing led to differences in the viscosity flow curves of the recovered solutions, with the presence of particulates having a marked effect. This study revealed that the structure and processing methods applied to oat materials resulted in varied and complex rheological properties, especially when particulates are present.
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Polysaccharide structures and interactions in a lithium chloride/urea/water solvent. Carbohydr Polym 2016; 149:231-41. [DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.04.102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2015] [Revised: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 04/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Rieder A, Ballance S, Løvaas A, Knutsen SH. Minimizing molecular weight reduction of β-glucan during barley bread making. Lebensm Wiss Technol 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2015.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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