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Novel indicators and technologies for oat quality and applicability (OatHow) Co-innovation project funded by Business Finland Ulla Holopainen-Mantila 12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 1
Need and background of OatHow
The importance of oats is increasing globally due to climate change and public
health concerns
Finland and Finnish oats have a great potential to be in a leading position globally,
contributing to sustainable food production
Finnish oat and food industry has strongly raised the acute need to increase
understanding of oat cultivars and oat crop batches regarding processability and
end product quality
• Especially when aiming at export of food ingredients and products, uniform quality is
highly important
As a result of intensive promotion of need for oat research, OatHow as an individual
project was funded by Business Finland in November 2018
12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 2OatHow in brief
Project type: A public 2-year co-innovation project funded by Business Finland
(BF), research partners (and to small extent participating industry)
Duration: From Jan 2019 to Dec 2020
Partners
1. Research: VTT (coordinator, Emilia Nordlund et al.), Luke (Veli Hietaniemi
et al.), HY (Tuula Sontag-Strohm et al.), UTU (Kaisa Linderborg et al.)
2. Industry (in total 12 companies): Avena, Boreal, Fazer, Helsingin Mylly,
Kinnusen Mylly, Lantmännen Agro, Myllyn Paras, Polar Glucan, Raisio,
Vaasan, Valio, Viking Malt
Budget: Total budget 2.0 M€ (of which 60% i.e. 1.2M€ from BF)
Four parallel company projects starting simultaneously with OatHow
(Boreal, Fazer, Helsingin Mylly, Valio)
12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 3Aims of OatHow project
The main aim of OatHow is
To develop quality indicators for oats to facilitate
• purchasing of oat batches and
• selection of oats for various food processes
In addition, OatHow aims to result in
• New insights on oats applicability
• Knowledge for breeding of new oat cultivars
The vision of OatHow is that in the future Finland is globally acknowledged for
deep understanding on oat characteristics and their applicability in food
12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 4OatHow research setup and outputs
WP1 Oat properties:
chemical, physical,
Oat grains
agronomic and Outputs
genomic approach
Novel
indicators of
Milling
Variables and analyses
oat quality
WP2 Milling, Data
techno-functional and
analysis and New insight
sensory properties
Ingredients of oat ingredients
development on oats
applicability
of novel
methods/
Knowledge for
indicators breeding of
new cultivars
Food processing
WP3 Food processing
and product quality WP4 Data analysis and
End development and validation
products of novel methods/indicators
for oat qualityTwo approaches of OatHow project
New technologies and
methods:
200 Genomic approach • to predict the behaviour of
oat (with proximate compositional
analysis)
oat raw materials in the
samples
processes
• for successful selection of
oats for various processes
• for efficient breeding of
30 Processing approach high quality oats
oat (with detailed physico-chemical • for quality indicators to
samples and quality analysis)
facilitate product
innovations for exportExploitable results of OatHow
Practical and modern analysis methods to predict the behaviour
of different oat cultivars and oat batches in various food processes
Information on dependencies on oat cultivar, crop year and
growth location to proximate oat crop composition
Knowledge on the relations between chemical composition,
physical properties, techno-functional characteristics,
processing behaviour and end-product quality of different oat
cultivars and oat batches
Knowledge on the effect of storage time on key physico-
chemical parameters and sensory properties of oat ingredient
quality
12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 7Expected impact
Increased export of Finnish oat products and oat-related technologies
Innovations on new sophisticated and/or practical high-throughput technologies
related to indicator and data analysis methods support Finland as a high-tech
exporter of oat products
Finnish oats’ image will benefit from the valuable understanding of the
characteristics of oat cultivars and their link to the end-product quality
Increased degree of oats in the daily diet would have positive impact on
public health
Possibility to respond to the changing needs of current and future
consumers by well-known raw materials and ingredients as well as by
optimally adjusted processes for ingredient production
Both economic and environmental sustainability by reduced waste production
12/12/2018 VTT – beyond the obvious 8OatHow-projekti viljelijän näkökulmasta
Miten OatHow-projekti tukee vilja-alan arvoketjun rakentumista?
• OatHow-projekti hyödyttää koko kaurasta elintarvikkeeksi –ketjua, vaikka painotus onkin
kauramateriaalin teknologisissa ominaisuuksissa.
• Kun kauran laadulle saadaan määritettyä sopivat mittarit, mahdollistuu esim. laatupohjaisten
viljelysopimusten tekeminen sekä eri käyttötarkoituksiin soveltuvien kauraerien tunnistaminen jo
esim. kokonaisista jyvistä ennen prosessointia.
Mikä on viljelijöiden rooli OatHow-projektissa?
• Viljelijöillä ei ole aktiivista roolia OatHow:ssa, mutta viljelijöille tullaan tiedottamaan projektin
edistymisestä ja tuloksista.
Mitä tuleva jalostustoiminta odottaa viljelijöiltä, lajikekehitykseltä ja tuotantotavoilta?
• OatHow ei sisällä varsinaista jalostustoimintaa, vaan ennemminkin tuottaa tietoa, jota voidaan
hyödyntää kauranjalostuksessa. OatHow-projektin tuottama tieto kauramateriaalin
laatutarpeista luo hyvän pohjan esim. kauran viljelyn suuntaamiselle siten, että tuotettaisiin
sopivanlaatuista kauraa erilaisiin elintarvikeprosesseihin.
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