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Achievements C&BoF

Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of PAS > Research & Dissemination > Scientific Groups > Chemistry and Biodynamics of Food > Achievements C&BoF

  1. Obtaining two patents for gluten-free products: Gluten-free mix (P386253) and Gluten-free baking mix (P386254); two patents for baking products: A method of producing a bakery product (P225881) and an enriched baking mix with increased antioxidant potential (P230310).
  2. Development and implementation procedures for non-clinical medical research of food phytochemicals bioavailability with the participation of volunteers as well as studies of phytochemicals bioavailability with animals (rats, sheep, pigs).
  3. Development and implementation of innovative procedures for the analysis and isolation of flavonoid and betalain from the plant material and physiological fluids of humans and animals using  HPLC-DAD system coupled with mass spectrometer.
  4. Establishing that the highest quantities of health-promoting lower forms of inositol phosphates are synthesized from phytin during thermal processes (sterilisation, extrusion).
  5. Determining the antioxidative potential of basic cereals (buckwheat > barley > oats > rye > wheat).
  6. Postulating an indicator (the ratio of reduced to oxidized glutathione) as a useful tool for estimating the degree of oxidative processes in cereals.
  7. Analysing absorption of selected flavonoids and postulating a sequence of their conjugation.
  8. Elaborating a profile of dynamic changes in phytochemicals during germination of cruciferous seeds and establishing optimal conditions of that process that would enable obtaining a product with the highest antioxidative capacity.
  9. Determining the sorption capacity of biopolymers, starches, proteins/lipids or complex systems of various botanical origins analysed against hydrophobic biologically-active substances (cholesterol, bile acids).
  10. Proving the beneficial effect of the food matrix, especially on the absorption processes of flavonoids, which are poorly soluble in the alimentary tract.
  11. Establishing that betalains are absorbed after consumption of beetroot and occur in human body fluids in native form as well as deglucosylated, decarboxylated and dehydrogenated metabolites.
  12. Demonstration that anthocyanins of red cabbage (except acylated derivatives) and chokeberry and their metabolites can penetrate the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier.
  13. Development of innovative cereal-based bakery products for special dietary purposes with high sensory and technological quality and increased nutraceutical potential, enriched with bioactive and functional ingredients from selected plant processing by-products.
  14. Development of a procedure and conducting a pilot clinical trial evaluating the effect of gluten-free diet supplementation with a prebiotic on the nutritional status, characteristics and activity of the intestinal microbiota, functioning of the intestine and bone metabolism in patients with celiac disease.