WELCOME

Wheat, rye, barley, oat, rice and maize are an important chain link in the sustainable agriculture. Grain, flour and by-products are used as natural ingredients. Their main components provide nutritional benefits. They are delicious, flavourful and satiable. They have technological effects such as rheological, flavouring, structuring, encapsulation, ... combined with a positive image.

Nowadays, products made from grains are often used as versatile vehicles for functional ingredients. Yet grains themselves are sources of helpful functional (minor) components. How to detect these components and their effects in vitro and in vivo?
The conference will provide the possibility to discus latest results and to find arguments to reinforce the thesis “Grains are functional”. Participants with good media skills will help to communicate these facts in future.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Industry personnel dealing with grain, flour, cereals, bakery products, pasta, snacks and beverages. Researchers interested in technological or nutritional aspects of making/using grain-based health food, functional food and pet food.
Nutritionists and analytical chemists interested in determination of effects and substances. Food designers, marketing experts, designers of technical equipment and packaging, communication experts.

MAIN TOPICS

Grains, flours and by-products as raw materials with functional properties for making/processing food, feed and other uses
Cereals-based food with different nutritional benefits Communication and media messages to the consumers Grains as agro-technological factors and genetic-heritage

SATELLITE PROGRAMME

The workshop „Milling and Extrusion for Non-experts“ will give an overview with practical examples and trials of the skills, possibilities, challenges and limits of milling and extrusion used to transform grains into valuable products for industry, craft and consumers as well as for scientific evaluations and innovations.

The international workshop „Milling and Extrusion for Non-experts“ can be booked separately.
May 13/14, 2009, IGV GmbH, Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany.