Science & Research

Salba™, the most nutrient dense wholefood in nature, is the only ancient grain for which there are acute, randomised and long term human nutritional studies.

Much of the research into Salba™ has been conducted by Dr Vladimir Vuksan, Associate Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Centre at St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto and Professor at the University of Toronto, Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Canada.

Professor Vuksan is renowned for his research on functional foods and their efficacy in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes. He and his colleagues conducted the first acute and long term studies into Salba™. In both studies (the second of which was published in the November 2007 edition of the prestigious Diabetes Care Journal), Professor Vuksan and his colleagues turned up interesting results, leading him to describe Salba™ as “the perfect functional food”.

Says Dr Vuksan: “Due to its extremely high content of omega-3 fatty acids, a nutrient rich composition and results of preliminary clinical trials, Salba™ creates exceptional possibilities for the improvement of human nutrition.”

Professor Vuksan has travelled the world speaking to health professionals and nutrition specialists at leading international conferences and seminars about his findings on Salba™, which have been published in a number of peer reviewed international publications

He and his colleagues plan to conduct further human nutritional studies on Salba™.