The present invention provides a wheat plant comprising an Rht-B1 allele which encodes an Rht-B1 (DELLA) polypeptide. Grain from a near-isogenic wheat line comprising the dwarfing Rht-B1c allele was subjected to sodium azide mutagenesis. Plants exhibiting early leaf elongation rates or mature plant height greater than the dwarf parent were selected and the Rht-B1 gene sequenced. This identified 35 mutated alleles of Rht-B1c. Similar methods were also used to identify mutant alleles of the dwarfing sln1d allele in barley, where DELLA is encoded by the sln1 gene.

The present disclosure provides a novel and gentle process for producing oat-based products containing oat proteins that have good functional properties, including solubility, emulsifying, foaming and gelling properties. This process includes hydrolysis to break down carbohydrates, physical separation to remove insoluble fibers, and membrane filtration to concentrate oat proteins by the removal of sugars. The method can include providing an oat mixture; hydrolyzing the oat mixture with an enzyme or a combination of enzymes; physically separating an insoluble material from the hydrolyzed oat mixture to form a soluble hydrolyzed oat mixture; applying membrane filtration to the soluble hydrolyzed oat mixture using a membrane having molecular weight cut-offs (MWCO) greater than 100 kDa.

Aspects of the present disclosure relate to compositions comprising rice bran extract, method of making rice bran extract and method of using same.

A pre-fermented symbiotic matrix based on a cereal suspension containing encapsulated probiotics and prebiotics, the manufacturing process and the corresponding use are disclosed. The invention complements the actual functional food market solving problems inherent to reduced shelf-life of foods due to loss of probiotic viability to values below the minimum limits needed to promote biological activity. The invention also improves the enzymatic process in the preparation of the cereal base and the fermentative process conditions at different levels, namely the ability to control the concentration of sugars in the cereal suspension without adding sugars, increase protein and fiber content, reduce fermentation time to reduce energy consumption during the process and reduce the risk of contamination as well as promote long term microbial stability maintenance. The invention is designed for cases where intolerance and/or allergy to dairy products occur, as wells for the pharmaceutical, cosmetic and food industries, including pet food.

The present invention relates to a method of preparing a composition comprising ferulic acid. An aspect of the invention is a composition comprising hydrolysed wheat bran for use in the treatment or prevention of metabolic disease.

Disclosed are nutraceutical formulations, including extracts comprising the hydrophilic and lipophilic fractions of stabilized rice bran. Also disclosed are methods for using said nutraceutical formulations for the management or remediation of conditions related to type II diabetes in humans, including methods for decreasing HbA1c and fasting glucose blood concentrations, and for increasing serum fasting insulin levels.

A wheat bran composition of the invention contains a white wheat as a raw material, wherein the wheat bran composition has a dietary fiber content of 43 mass % or greater and a glucide content of 18 mass % or less. The invention also provides a method for producing a wheat bran composition, involving pulverizing grains of a white wheat to obtain a wheat bran composition having a dietary fiber content of 43 mass % or greater and a glucide content of 18 mass % or less. The invention also provides a premix containing the wheat bran composition. The invention also provides a method for producing a processed food involving using the wheat bran composition as a raw material.

The present invention relates to a liquid food product comprising a liquid fraction of a brewer's spent grain and a method of preparing said liquid food product. In particular the liquid food product is prepared from brewer's spent grain where a vegetable or animal material has been added and the mixture subjected to an extraction step to provide an improved taste and mouthfeel.

A method for producing a clean-tasting, neutral-color, concentrated, liquid protein base including separating fibrous material from the protein base. The method further includes applying ultrasonication to the protein base at an ulirasonication unit according to ulirasonication settings. The ultrasonication settmgs are adapted to cause acoustic cavitation within the protein base. The method further includes filtering the protein base through one or more membrane filters after separating the fibrous material from the protein base. The method further includes processing the protein base to form a protein ingredient in certain cases, the method further includes processing the separated fibrous material to produce a dietary fiber. Processing the fibrous material includes converting gelatinized starch from the separated fibrous material into resistant starch.

A method provides a base for milk substitute products from plant seeds which gives a smooth mouthfeel similar to that of the corresponding product from animal milk. The method comprises the steps of: a) soaking plant seed feedstock in water, and b) high-pressure homogenizing of the liquefied plant seed feedstock at a pressure of at least 800 bar, preferably at least 1000 bar, most preferably at least 2000 bar.