NutriBoost: Ingredients for increased fiber & carbohydrate reduction in mainstream food.

20世纪的食物体系是由容易获得的碳水化合物(精制蔗糖和淀粉，4千卡/克)构成的。它提供了大量的卡路里，但导致了局部的营养过剩和健康问题，如肥胖、糖尿病和心脏病。21世纪的食品体系必须纠正这种营养失衡。尽管糖和面粉的负面影响有据可查，但它们都是廉价且功能强大的成分，这使得它们的替代具有挑战性。到目前为止，食品业试图“更健康”地调整产品配方的努力只取得了部分成功。尽管在农业上比精制碳水化合物更丰富，但纤维(0-2千卡/克)，这是西方饮食中最缺乏的大量营养素，在很大程度上被忽视了。剑桥糖业有限公司和剑桥大学的这项合作旨在通过加快CamGlyco的“从纤维”成分的商业化来解决这种不平衡，将农业中最丰富的可再生资源(如玉米棒、燕麦壳和小麦秸秆)转化为食品中糖和面粉/淀粉的替代品。该项目的产出将为农民提供未充分利用的植物残渣带来的额外收入来源，在不增加温室气体排放和生物多样性丧失的情况下，每单位土地生产更多的粮食，并为主流食品的公司和消费者提供更健康的成分；为所有人提供更好的食物。

The 20th century food system was built of readily accessible carbohydrates (refined sucrose & starch, 4kcal/g). It provided abundant calories but led to localised nutrient excess and health issues such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease. The 21st-­century's food system must redress this nutritional imbalance. Despite well-documented negative impacts of sugar and flour, they are cheap and highly functional ingredients, making their replacement challenging. To date, the food industry's attempts at "healthier" product reformulation have achieved only partial success. Despite being more agriculturally abundant than refined carbohydrates, fibre (0-2kcal/g), the macronutrient most lacking in Western diets, has been largely ignored.This collaboration between Cambridge Glycoscience Ltd and the University of Cambridge looks to redress this imbalance by expediting the commercialisation of CamGlyco's platform of "From Fibre" ingredients by turning agriculture's most abundant renewable resources (by-products like corn cobs, oat hulls and wheat straw) into replacements for sugar and flour / starch in food. The project outputs will provide farmers with additional income streams from underutilised plant residues, produce more food per unit of land, without concomitant increase in greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, and give access to healthier ingredients to companies and consumers across mainstream food products; providing better food for all.