A new bread helps to reduce cholesterol.

It is elaborated with an oat fiber containing beta-glucans which reduces, According to its developers, cholesterol in the blood.

The Group Eroski It has developed a bread with beta-glucans from oats that helps reduce blood cholesterol levels. This has had the collaboration of the technology centre food research expert AZTI and the Breadmaker OKIN.

Made with an oat fiber containing the amount of enough beta-glucans to reduce cholesterol in the blood, and as indicated in the European food safety authority (EFSA) It confirms the relationship between a certain intake of betaglukane of oats and the reduction of blood cholesterol.

The cooperative has launched this bread under its range Eroski Sannia, focused on helping the consumer a more balanced diet with products with less salt, less sugars or less fat, and with a contribution of specific nutrients that help you follow a healthy diet, relying on collaboration with nutrition experts.

"As points out the" European food safety authority, the beneficial effect on cholesterol is obtained with a daily intake of 3 grams of oat betaglukane. New bread Eroski Sannia offers for the first time the consumer a recipe and ration, three daily English Muffins (a gram per roll), that you bring that amount and help to reduce cholesterol in the blood", says Ana Cuevas, Commercial Director of frescoes of Eroski.

[quote]The betaglukane is a soluble fiber present naturally in grains of oats, whose intake of three grams a day helps reduce blood cholesterol levels.[/quote]

To achieve this, It acts at different levels in our body: It forms a viscous layer on the walls of the intestine that promotes their elimination, so the body uses cholesterol circulating in blood to synthesize it getting thus reducing its content in the arteries.

In addition, actively reduces LDL cholesterol (better known as bad cholesterol) facilitating their removal from the blood. As a result, blood cholesterol is reduced.

"Innovation in the definition of production processes has been a key factor in the development of this bread Eroski Sannia with beta-glucans from oats that reduce cholesterol". This new development has allowed us to create a rich bread, "very spongy crumb and that maintains its healthy properties", explains Leire Barañano, Director of value of AZTI.

On the other hand, the President of familial hypercholesterolemia Foundation, Pedro Mata, ensures that "is evidence that people with moderately elevated blood cholesterol levels of" 240 mg/dl have twice the risk of suffering a heart attack than those with figures of 200. "Hence the importance that a distribution as Eroski company bet for healthy products that help consumers control their cholesterol levels".

The selling format is a bag with three rolls for breakfast, the lunch and dinner, of 70 grams each, baked daily in the chain stores. Each roll provides one gram of beta-glucans, to meet the recommended amount to reduce cholesterol in the blood.