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Whole-Wheat Bread for Human Health

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Interventional studies of whole-bread intake are very limited in the number of studies and participants, even some scholars are loudly declaring for their findings of the advantage of the whole-bread. Because of their limited extent, these findings cannot be used alone for a nutritional recommendation but they contribute robust evidence for the superiority of the whole-bread. The use of biomarkers such as blood alkylresorcinol is a very interesting measure to conduct medium-scaled observations for the advantage of the whole-bread because such a biomarker device is much more accurate than the outcome of the dietary questionnaires.

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Dror, Y., Rimon, E., Vaida, R. (2020). Intervention and Biomarkers. In: Whole-Wheat Bread for Human Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39823-1_17

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