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🚨 Article 4 Novel Food Consultation Published on Oat Hull Syrup! 🌱Oat hull syrup, from the hulls of oat (Avena sativa) is a mixture of sugars, mainly xylose (50 .6 %), glucose (13.2 %), arabinose (11.6 %), and galactose (4.6 %). The total sugar content of the oat hull syrup is 79.5 %. The manufacturing process is commonly used to produce sugar syrups. The proposed uses of the oat hull syrup were as an ingredient in different food categories to replace other sugars and syrups to provide sweetness and flavour to the foods. ❌ Even though fibre from the oat hulls is not a novel food, the Finnish authorities concluded that oat hull syrup is a novel food based on the fact that oat hulls have not been used before to produce sugars or syrup and the composition of the syrup, consisting mainly of xylose, is also different from the syrups currently on the market. Read in full here 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dN7VmWYH #novelfood #foodregulations #futureoffood

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Erika Daniel

Regulatory at Omega Pharma, a Perrigo Company

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How interesting that on the European Commission website it is stated "Not Novel" but when you follow the link to the document you do indeed see the "Novel" conclusion. This has caught my attention, something odd here.

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