Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883996

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/LP0883996

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Dietary sugarcane-derived polyphenols reduce obesity. The Australian Sugar Industry is a billion dollar industry with refined sugar being calorie-rich but nutrition poor. Consumption of refined sugar is a main contributor to the increasing problem of obesity and metabolic syndrome, costing the Australian health system billions of dollars annually. The principal outcomes of this project will be to show that the polyphenols contained in the waste products from sugar refining can be used to reduce body fat and insulin resistance. These outcomes have enormous implications for human health and disease, and for the sugar industry, thus providing a competitive edge in the world sugar market.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 09-10-2008

End Date: 30-06-2012

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $165,923.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Nutrition and Dietetics | Food Processing | Systems Physiology | Nutrition And Dietetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Sugar | Preventive medicine | Nutrition |

Other Keywords

Food Processing | Nutrition | Nutrition And Dietetics | Nutrition and Dietetics | Preventive medicine | Sugar | Systems Physiology

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