PROJECT R&D+I

TITLE
ARROZ-BIG - DEVELOPMENT OF RICE PRODUCTS WITH LOW GLYCEMIA INDEX

HIGHLIGHTS
Development of rice products with low glycemic index

ABSTRACT
The national rice production is subject to view your current products considered undesirable to
balanced and healthy diets in the quantities currently sold.

Growing concerns about food, health and well-being are the focus of a number of industries. The
rice industry is no exception, and it is already a concern to have rice with certain characteristics
that are destined to the growing market segment concerned with the control of obesity and
diabetes.

The objective of the project is the development of rice products with low glycemic index.

The achievement of this objective implies a performance throughout the chain, from the
agricultural production to the primary and secondary transformations in the industry, to the
consumer, in the field of nutrition and clinical analysis, as well as in the preferences and sensorial
analysis.

The project will allow the Ernesto Morgado SA to create a state-of-the-art integrated knowledge
of new and exotic varieties of rice, with characteristics in terms of starch, digestibility, nutritional
value and sensorial implications that will only be possible by integrating a multidisciplinary team
in the state of the art in different areas of knowledge relevant to the whole chain.

KEYWORDS
Innovation, Rice, Nutrition, Glycemia

PROMOTERS / PARTNERS
Escola Superior de Biotecnologia - Universidade Catlica Portuguesa; Ernesto Morgado SA (Coordinator);
Instituto Nacional de Investigao Agrria e Veterinria; Universidade do Minho; Universidade do Porto -
Faculdade de Cincias

FINANCING PROGRAM EXECUTION DATE GLOBAL BUDGET

COMPETE 2020 2017-2019 109 832,66

CONTACTS E-MAIL PHONE

Ana Gomes amgomes@porto.ucp.pt +351 22 558 0001