Contribution of cereal-based fermented foods to Folate intake in European and African countries

WP3: Identification of the folate sources in African and European diets Leader : Dr Susanna Kariluoto (Finland) Co-leader : Dr Youna Hemery (France) The main objective of this WP is to measure the amount of folates produced in the different CBFFs by the microorganisms, and to evaluate the ...

WP4: Feasibility of increasing the folate content in food products and consumer acceptability Leader : Pr Andre Oelofse (South Africa) Co-leader : Dr Charles Parkouda (Burkina-Faso) The objective of this WP is to estimate the achievability of increasing the folate content of the CBFFs (one per ...

List of the scientific articles related to the FoLEA project:  Saubade F., Hemery Y., Guyot J-P., and Humblot C. (2016). Lactic acid fermentation as a tool for increasing the folate content of foods. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition , accepted for publication. Link to the ...

Oral communications and posters presented at international conferences (posters, abstracts, and proceedings are available for download):

Kariluoto S., Hemery Y., Saubade F., Tamene A., Baye K., Ouattara-Songré L., Ba-Hama F., Piironen V., Humblot C. (2016). Contribution of fermented cereals to folate intake in European and African countries. 4th International Vitamin Conference (25-27 May 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark). Link to the ...

Saubade F., Hemery Y., Guyot  J-P., Humblot C. (2015). Influence of spontaneous fermentations on the folate content of a pearl-millet based gruel. 4th African Food and Nutrition Forum: "Global response for sustainable food systems in the post-Millennium Development Goal Era" (27–29 ...

Hemery Y., Saubade F., Berrazega I., Almousa-Almaksour Z., Picq C., Guyot J-P., and Humblot C. (2015). The use of in situ fortification to improve the nutritional quality of traditional fermented foods. 4th African Food and Nutrition Forum: "Global response for sustainable food systems in the ...

Saubade F., Hemery Y., Humblot C., and Guyot J-P. (2015). Influence of fermentation and other process steps on folate content of a traditional African pearl millet based fermented food. VIth Sourdough and Cereal Fermentation Symposium, Understanding natural complexity (September 30 - October 2 ...

Saubade F., Almousa-Almaksour Z., Hemery Y., Humblot C., Picq C., and Guyot J-P. (2014). Is it possible to increase the folate content in cereal based fermented foods using lactic acid bacteria ? Food Micro 2014, 24th International ICFMH conference (September 1-4 2014, Nantes, France). link to the ...

IRD, Montpellier (France)The kick-off meeting of the FolEA project was organized by the Nutripass Unit (IRD) in Montpellier on the 13th and 14th of November 2014 . Partners from Burkina-Faso, Ethiopia, Finland, South-Africa and France met, and discussed: the organization of the project, the ...

Debre Zeit (Ethiopia)The first annual meeting of the FolEA project was organized by Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia) and held in Debre Zeit on the 30th and 31st of October 2015 . The partners discussed the first results and advances of the project, the reporting, funding and the exchange of ...

Ouagadougou (Burkina-Faso)The 2nd annual meeting of the FolEA project was organized by IRSAT (Burkina-Faso) and held in Ouagadougou on the 12th and 13th December 2016 . The partners discussed the results, experiment plans, publication plans, reporting, funding and the exchange of students and ...

PhD student Fabrice Bationo, from IRSAT (Burkina-Faso), will be hosted for 10 months at the University of Helsinki (Finland) , from February 2017 to December 2017. He will study fermented foods from Burkina-Faso and Finland, will be trained on folate vitamers analysis by HPLC, and will work on the ...

On the 2nd December 2016 in Montpellier (France), Fabien Saubade defended his thesis entitled "Nutritional potential of the microbiota of cereal-based fermented foods: the case of folate "*. This work was carried out at IRD from September 2013 to December 2016, in the framework of the ...