New legume flour improves blood glucose response to white bread Researchers in the UK have developed a new flour made from chickpeas they claim can lower the glycaemic response in people eating white bread.
Bread is one of the UK’s favourite foods. According to the association of UK Flour Millers, the product is purchased by 99.8% of British households, with the equivalent of approximately 11m loaves sold each day. The majority (60-70%) of this bread is white.
While undoubtedly a popular staple, bread has a high-glycaemic index due to its highly digestible wheat starch. When this starch is quickly digested to glucose in the body, it causes a large spike in blood glucose levels. It is thought that helping consumers better manage their blood glucose could help reduce obesity and type 2 diabetes.
Researchers from the Quadram Institute and King's College London have shown that replacing wheat flour with a new ingredient derived from chickpeas improved the glycemic response of people eating white bread.
Research provides better understanding of how antibiotic resistance arises
Researchers at the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park have shown how the development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria can have side-effects for them including affecting their ability to cause disease.
Antibiotic resistance remains one of the greatest challenges to global health with very few new antibiotics and widespread resistance. It has been estimated that tens of millions of people will soon die annually due to antibiotic resistant infections not being treatable. This new research has the potential to help in the development of new treatments, as well as giving us a better understanding of how resistance arises, and so guide current practices to minimize this.
Hospital-based evidence on cost-effectiveness of brucellosis diagnostic tests and treatment in Kenyan hospitals
Lorren Alumasa,
Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya ⨯
Lian F. Thomas, Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Affiliation International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya ⨯
Samuel M. Njoroge,
Affiliations International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitolo