FACTS ON FIBRE: Fact 1. The main role of fibre is to keep the digestive system healthy. Fact 2. Fibre contributes to stabilising glucose and cholesterol levels. MORE
ACA reviews some of Australia's most popular cereals - Goodness Superfoods Digestive 1st named one of the healthiest for you!
Video: The full story on BARLEYmax. In depth interview by Dr Joanna McMillan and Dr David Topping
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At Goodness Superfoods, we are dedicated to informing you, our customers, of the latest research in nutritional science. We believe that choosing to eat our cereals may help promote physical and emotional wellness. To find out more about the powerful health properties of Goodness Superfoods' breakfast cereals and read more about the nutritional science of BARLEYmax, please download The BARLEYmax Better Nutrition Report published by BARLEYmax. "Our initial aim with BARLEYmax was to enhance the nutritional qualities of standard barley. Once this was achieved, it was important to make the improved grain available to the consumer via the food industry so all Australians could benefit from CSIRO's breakthrough." |
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About Goodness Breakfast Cereals
Goodness superfoods is an Australian brand focussed on producing the finest quality, leading edge health products. All Goodness superfoods use the highest calibre ingredients that deliver special health benefits. Goodness superfoods has a simple nutritional philosophy; improve your digestive system and you have the starting point for improved wellness.
The company pioneered the use of the super wholegrain BarleyMax in its Goodness Digestive 1st, Protein 1st and Heart 1st breakfast cereals. BarleyMax is a natural wholegrain that is superior in fibre and protein. It is a non-genetically modified barley grain that has been in development for almost 12 years via the CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship. When combined with specially selected pure natural ingredients, the Goodness breakfast cereal range is unrivalled.
Goodness superfoods is based in Dandenong South, Victoria.
BARLEYmax is the highest fibre wholegrain with resistant starch
Dr Joanna McMillan
"There are not many breakfast cereals on the market that I recommend, but Digestive 1st and Protein 1st really stand out nutritionally being wholegrain, low GI, high in fibre and resistant starch, low in added sugars and they taste great. Increased wholegrain intake has been shown to reduce the risk of certain cancers, heart disease, diabetes, stroke and even help with weight control. These cereals really do have the potential to help combat many of the chronic diseases affecting Australians,"
Joanna is a registered nutritionist and accredited practising dietitian with a PhD in nutritional science from the University of Sydney. She is also a trained fitness leader and taught group exercise classes for almost 15 years. Joanna's ability to translate science into everyday messages has made her a sought after media spokesperson. She is passionate about quality food, loves to eat and loves to cook, and firmly believes that these qualities lie at the heart of healthy living and achieving the best possible diet.
Her philosophy on diet is quite simple and in accordance with what most of us instinctively know. That is to eat more fresh wholesome foods and fewer processed, packaged foods. In essence this means cooking more meals yourself from the raw ingredients. But she tempers this with realistic advice on which modern food products and processing/preserving techniques can be useful in helping you achieve a healthy diet in today's time-poor, results-orientated environment.
Joanna truly believes that many of us don't know how good we could feel, how much better we could look and how much our work performance could improve, if only we ate well and moved more.
The Power of Resistant Starch
And how resistant starch benefits human health
In a global first for any government health authority, the recommendations of Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council specify a resistant starch component in their fibre intake advice *32 reflecting its considerable contribution to human health.
“ We considered the scientific evidence showing a positive impact of resistant starch on digestive health convincing and warranted inclusion in the new fibre intake recommendations.” Dr Katrine Baghurst, Chair, Nutrient Reference Values Working Party.
"High protein, low fibre diets may help you lose weight in the short term, but unless you include enough fibre, particularly resistant starch, you risk damaging your bowel" Dr David Topping, Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Food Futures Flagship.
RESISTANT STARCH, FERMENTATION AND COLON CANCER
There is growing recognition of the important connection between diet and bacterial metabolism in the colon
and specifically how the interaction can impact on important diseases like colon cancer.*33
In fact, the human colon is one of the most densely populated natural habitats known to science with the human body containing an order of magnitude more prokaryotic cells than it does mammalian ones.*33
The bacterial flora in the gastrointestinal tract should be considered ‘an organ within an organ’ exerting considerable metabolic capability.
Research with dietary components like resistant starch supports a direct link between diet, colonic bacteria and colon cancer, with recent animal studies indicating high resistant starch diets may prevent colon carcinogenesis.*33
References: The BARLEYmax Better Nutrition Report, page 12 *33
The Barleymax Story
BARLEYmax is a unique type of barley with enhanced nutritional benefits developed by CSIRO as part of its ongoing grains research program.
CSIRO has a long history of interest in barley as a grain with human health benefits. In the late 1990's, CSIRO researchers developed a collection on new non-GMO barley grains and assessed them for their potential to improve health by delivering high levels of resistant starch and other dietary fibre components.
From this quest one particular gem emerged - a new type of barley grain that went on to become BARLEYmax.
CSIRO brought together scientists from its Plant Industry and Food and Nutritional Sciences divisions to work on the understanding and substantiating the health attributes of BARLEY max, under the CSIRO Food Futures National Research Flagship.
Through an extensive program of experimental studies, including a number of human trials, it was shown that a range of foods produced with BARLEYmax as their key ingredient had a low glycemic index and also produced positive changes in a range of biomarkers of bowel health.
Our superfoods and key ingredients
Wholegrains
Resistant Starch
Soluble Fibre
Insoluble Fibre
Low Glycemic Load
Antioxidants
Healthy Fats
Soy
Barley
Amaranth
Honey
BARLEYmax is a registered trade mark of CSIRO and is used under licence
BARLEYmax marketed exclusively by Austgrains Pty Ltd, for Australia and New Zealand
