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Eat Your Way To A Healthier Heart With This Muffin

Darpan News Desk IANS, 20 May, 2017 12:58 AM
    When it comes to lowering cholesterol, a 'good heart' muffin, developed by University of Queensland scientists, may keep the doctor at bay.
     
    UQ Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences scientist and keen baker Nima Gunness said the muffins contained three grams of beta glucans - a healthy soluble fibre that occurs naturally in the cell walls of oats and cereals, and meets the food standard guidelines for cholesterol-lowering properties.
     
    "There is good evidence that three grams or more of oats beta glucan consumption a day can help reduce cholesterol levels," Gunness said, adding, "I wanted to turn my discovery into a product, like a muffin, that people could eat to help reduce the amount of cholesterol in their blood stream, lowering the risk of heart disease."
     
    Gunness, who perfected her low-fat blueberry muffin recipe over several months, noted, "The trick was to avoid making the muffin gluggy from all the extra oat bran and beta glucan fibre."
     
    Now UQ's commercialisation company UniQuest and a UQ Business School student are identifying opportunities for the muffins to be packaged, frozen, and sold in supermarkets, cafes and health food outlets around the country.
     
    "We are not suggesting that people go off any cholesterol-lowering medication," Gunness said, adding "Rather, we are aiming to provide a convenient, healthy and very tasty way of helping to reduce cholesterol levels."
     
    Through UniQuest, Dr Gunness is working with Australian food company Priestley's Gourmet Delights to manufacture and taste-test a batch of 'good heart' muffins.
     
    "I was really amazed by how positive the consumer feedback has been," she said. "It's very exciting to see a simple everyday product come out of some fairly complex research. Eating a muffin a day is a convenient way for people to improve their heart health."

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