Ingredients:

5-6 medium sized cooking apples

Dash of lemon juice

0.5 teaspoon of cinnamon powder

1 tablespoon butter

0.5 cup brown sugar

0.5 cup whole meal flour

1.5 cup of Goodness Superfoods Heart 1t

Preparation:

• Skin and slice apples thinly and arrange in concentric circles in a fruit flan or tart dish
• Sprinkle lemon juice and cinnamon powder
• In a medium sized bowl, cream butter and sugar, rub in the flour. Add Goodness Superfoods Heart 1^st                   and mix well
• Cover the sliced apples with the mix
• Bake @ 180 ⁰C (160 ⁰C fan forced) for 25 minutes
• Serve warm with custard or ice cream

 Apples can be replaced with pears.

The Goodness Superfoods brand symbolizes digestive health and we are always striving to enhance product quality for the benefit of our consumers. We have increased our foot print in the retail space in the last 3 years and we now have 7 products – 3 cereals, 2 porridges, sprinkles and wraps – available. We have been listening to our consumers and we value their feedback very much because it is our link to the wider consumer community.

We have listened to constructive feedback on the sugar levels in the Digestive 1^st. This has been addressed and soon we will launch a no added sugar version of this cereal – ie; no honey or golden syrup. The sugar content has been reduced by 30%, dropping the net sugar content from nearly 30g/100g to 20g/100g. The sweetness will be derived from the fruits – apples and sultanas. Many hours of research and sensory sessions have gone into improving the product quality and its nutritional profile without detracting from the breakfast experience experienced by our consumers.

On another note, our cereals are a tough eat, due to the high amount of fibre in BARLEYmax – we make no apologies for it. However, with a view to improving texture and mouth feel of the cereals, we will now have a lighter, crisper flake that has all the dietary benefits AND the LOW GI feature that has become synonymous with the Goodness brand. Our Facebook friends have helped us with sensory evaluations to determine the ideal flake thickness – our thanks to them!

We hope you continue to enjoy these reformulated cereals as much as we have enjoyed making them for you. As our ardent supporter of our product and our brand, we would appreciate if you could recommend your favorite cereal to your family members and friends.

Thank you,

Dr. Lakshmi Iyer, PhD. MBA (Tech. Mgmt)

Group Manager – Product Development

Ingredients:

200g pitted dates, roughly chopped

1 cup water

½ cup honey

½ cup raw sugar

1 cup vegetable oil

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 cups wholemeal self-raising flour

½ cup Goodness Superfoods Fibre Boost Sprinkles

1 medium carrot, grated

Preparation:

Place dates, water, honey and oil in a large microwave dish

Heat the microwave for 4 minutes on HIGH and stir at the half way mark

Allow to cool slightly

Add the remaining ingredients and combine

Pour mixture into a greased and lined 10cm x 20cm loaf pan

Bake in a moderate oven 180°C (160°C fan-forced) for 40-45 minutes or until skewer is clean.

Allow to cool slightly before removing from tin.

There is a small but growing minority of people who advocate a grain-free diet. Their argument is that grains and sugars result in large blood glucose rises and correspondingly demand a high level of insulin to be dealt with by the body. Since insulin is a storage hormone this makes it difficult for the body to burn fat and instead the shift is towards storing energy – principally in fat stores. They argue that consuming grains is therefore at the root cause of rising levels of obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes.

Much of this thinking comes from the interest in Paleo diets – that is the diet consumed by our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Before we began farming, some 10,000 years ago, Man did not consume grains or refined sugars, and so the carbohydrate load of the diet was less than today (but it’s incorrect to say our carbohydrate intake was low – just lower). The insulin demand would also therefore have been lower. However when we did start to grow grains and domesticate animals, it allowed our populations to grow. We were able to grow more food instead of relying on successful hunts. In the modern world it would be impossible to feed us all on an animal food based diet.

But do eating grains impact negatively on our health? Well the first point is that it is ludicrous to lump all grain foods into one category. There is a huge difference physiologically and nutritionally between a wholegrain, minimally processed, and a refined grain product. We cannot compare a wholegrain bread for example with a cupcake made from white flour and sugar! Its no surprise that people lose weight when they stop eating grains… that means no cakes, biscuits, muffins, pastries, white bread or other baked goodies. Yet they will claim its grains per se that were the problem.

Refined grains are undoubtedly a problem. Products made predominantly from white flours, and even many wholemeal flours being so finely ground by modern milling techniques, do give rise to large rapid rises in blood glucose and require an unnaturally large release of insulin to be dealt with by the body. If this happens repeatedly the chronic elevations in blood glucose and insulin can damage blood vessels, raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes and is highly likely to affect your weight (particularly if you are also sedentary). However when you eat the same amount of carbohydrate from a minimally processed grain food, both glucose responses and insulin are markedly lower.

There is also evidence that the added carbohydrates in our diet when we began consuming grains lead to a growth in the frontal lobes of the brain; as a consequence we actually got smarter. To me this is really interesting. We got smart enough to figure out how to farm and that we could get some of our nutritional needs from eating more plant foods, and by doing so we fed our brain more of the fuel it needs to work optimally. In turn our intelligence improved again. Fascinating! Today roughly 30% of the glucose circulating in your bloodstream is used by the brain. If you also exercise, particularly at any intensity, you need addition carbohydrates to fuel your working muscles.

Lastly there is a substantial amount of evidence showing that consumption of wholegrains reduces your risk of chronic disease and is associated with lower BMIs. So the epidemiological evidence is in support of being picky about which grain foods you eat. It seems clear to me that so long as you are smart in your carb-rich food choices and include wholegrains in your diet – while minimising your use of refined starch and sugar – you will reap the benefits. Barleymax products fall into this category. They are not made from flour but the intact grain, they are incredibly rich in all three types of fibre, but uniquely are high in the third type resistant starch, while being low GI (slowly absorbed), and is higher in protein and micronutrients than many common grains. Research just released from CSIRO shows that resistant starch in the diet feeds the good bacteria in your bowel and improves the ability of the cells in your bowel to protect themselves from carcinogens, in turn lowering your risk of cancer. So my mind there is little doubt that we need to picky about which carbohydrate-rich foods we should eat regularly in our diet, and that choosing the smart carbs benefits our health enormously. If you’ve been “carbophobic” I hope that comes as joyous relief!

1. Store the cereal in cool, dry conditions at an ambient temperature – about 25 degrees

2. We recommend to store the product in an airtight container away from the light.

Otherwise the cereal might lose or absorb (depending on the environmental humidity) moisture.

3. The best place to store them is the kitchen pantry.

Enjoy your tasty and crunchy Goodness Superfoods cereal!

Many of you know that the CSIRO has developed the Goodness Superfoods hero ingredient BARLEYmax® and conducts a variety of research to benefit the Australian public. Recently, the CSIRO published research which suggests that resistant starch may even offer the potential to help protect against bowel cancer. The article on CSIRO’s website writes “Consumption of resistant starch leads to positive changes in the bowel and could protect against genetic damage implicated in bowel cancer. “ Naturally, this caught our attention!

Sadly, in Australia bowel cancer is the second most common cancer and 30 people are newly diagnosed every day! So how do you ensure you get enough on resistant starch into your daily diet? It’s easy:

You are off to a great start of the day with a bowl of our traditional oats and barley porridge which provides you with 0.5g of resistant starch. Add a medium sized banana to your porridge which gives you another 4.7g of resistant starch.

For lunch why not indulge in our new Barley wraps? Two wraps provide you with 0.6g resistant starch but add ingredients such as a fresh mixed bean salad with coriander, mint and lemon grass for an extra boost in resistant starch. Cannelloni beans have a resistant starch content of 3.8g on average and chick peas 2.1g.

Dinner should be light for a flat tummy but not light in nutrition so why not cook a vegetable soup with some pearl barley? Pearl barley has a high resistant starch content of 1.9g on average and you can toast some of our Barley wraps to dip into the soup instead of bread.

For more resistant starch foods click here and  check out also this video of our dietitian Dr Joanna McMillan to learn more about the benefits of resistant starch.

Yours Sincerely

Peter W Clark

B.Sc., M.Sc., Cert. Mkt., M. Nutr. & Dietetics

Accredited Practising Dietitian and Nutritionist

Accredited Sports Dietitian

Principal, Healthier You Pty Ltd

When considering fibre into our diet, most think of soluble (seeds, beans) and insoluble (nuts, grains) – but we often forget about the ‘other’ fibre – resistant starch.

Resistant starch moves all the way through the digestive system and has countless benefits, including:

• Keeps colonic cells healthy. (through production of butyrate from fermentation of resistant starch)

• Promotes mineral absorption. (through bacterial fermentation – compared to insoluble fibre rich foods which have phytates that bind to minerals and prevent absorption)

• Helps make you feel full.  (Formation of RS also reduces the carb load in the food)

• Associated with lower cholesterol & triglyceride levels.

• Promotes the growth of good bacteria. 

• Promotes bowel regularity.

BARLEYmax - contained in our Goodness Superfood products – is natural and contains twice the dietary fibre of regular grains, has four times the amount of resistant starch and has a low GI.

Two reasons we are avoiding resistant starches

1. The trend of ‘carb cutting’ has resulted in cutting out natural resistant starches like cold cooked potatoes and pasta.
2. The fear of added fibre (gas & bloating) is another common reason we find people are avoiding getting their normal daily intake.  When additional fibre just simply needs to be introduced gradually (and throughout the day), building to healthy levels.

If you see yourself falling into one of these categories, it’s important to address these changes and get resistant starch back into a regular part of your diet!

The composition of the fibre in 100g of the finished product is as follows:

• 6.1g soluble fibre, of which 2.5g is B glucans. USFDA approved health claim for beta-glucan states an amount of 3g beta-glucan per day is sufficient to reduce cholesterol absorption. Wholegrain BARLEY Wraps provide 1.1g beta-glucan per serving (45g) and therefore provide more than one third of the recommended amount
• 17g insoluble fibre, which helps with regularity
• 0.7g resistant starch, the starch that acts as a prebiotic in the colon and helps to produce Short Chain Fatty Acid (SCFA) and lowers colonic pH

Wholegrain BARLEY wraps are slightly darker than other wraps, due to the darker colour of the BARLEYmax® grain and the flour from it. BUT they do certainly not compromise on taste, texture and functionality.

The wraps are soft, pliable, easy to roll with your favourite filling and do not stick to each other in the packet. They lend themselves to be used as-is or toasted, with savory fillings like chicken, tuna and salad or with sweet topping such as honey, jam, golden syrup and banana.

1. Drizzle with honey and add some stewed apple

2. Add maple syrup

3. Sprinkle cinnamon powder and add some banana

4. Spoon some golden syrup

5. Sprinkle some brown sugar and add some sultanas

6. Sprinkle some raw sugar and nutmeg powder

If you have any other suggestions, please share with us and let’s get ready for the winter season!