Nutritional Innovations and Interventions to Promote Whole Grain Consumption

Dear Colleagues,

Dietary guidelines continue to emphasise the importance of including whole grain foods as part of a healthy diet to reduce the risk of non-communicable diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, colorectal cancer and type 2 diabetes. However, in many countries, whole grain intake remains low, and refined grains are predominantly consumed. Consequently, a broad range of innovative approaches are needed to support the exchange of refined grain for whole grain and deliver improved health outcomes. Some of these approaches include:

• Community and public health-based interventions that promote whole grain consumption.
• The development of whole grain varieties with tailored functional nutritional and health benefits (e.g., specific fibre composition).
• Nutrition-focused interventions that involve processing technologies and methods that enable the development of whole grain cereal-based food formulations and products with enhanced organoleptic and/or nutritional qualities and greater consumer appeal.

This Special Issue in Nutrients offers an opportunity to highlight novel and innovative research strategies and practical approaches to promote whole grain consumption for improved human health outcomes. It will include the latest findings and developments in a wide spectrum of scientific fields, such as cereal breeding, preclinical and clinical research and food science and technology.  Preclinical and randomised clinical trials, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, narrative reviews and position papers will be considered for publication.

Dr. Damien P. Belobrajdic
Guest Editor

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• whole grains
• whole grain foods
• wheat
• oats
• barley
• fibre
• microbiome
• metabolic health
• cardiovascular disease
• colorectal cancer
• inflammation
• plant protein