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Objectives of the event: ❖ The event will provide an opportunity for researchers, including early career researchers, across the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Research Portfolio to showcase their research and highlight recent research outputs and impact. ❖ This networking event will provide a forum for both researchers and policy makers from across the public sector to discuss key cross cutting strategic issues affecting Scotland’s environment, communities and rural economy. ❖ The event will enable policy colleagues to discuss with the research community policy priorities and
Microbes play a wide variety of essential roles in keeping our guts healthy and in supporting food and agriculture production. Conversely, some microbial populations can cause serious disease, as foodborne pathogens or infectious agents of food-producing animals and crops. With the aim of connecting learners and the general public to these important themes, and to offer educational support in this area, SEFARI researchers have created “Microbe Safari”, an interactive website focusing on the diversity of microbes that are related to gut health, food safety, food production and the environment.
Background Dietary fibre is only found in plant derived foods like wheat, beans, fruit and vegetables but not meat, fish eggs or dairy produce. In Scotland the average intake of wholegrains and plant-based foods, including peas, beans and pulses, is low. For example, the recommend daily intake of dietary fibre is 30g/day for good health but the population, on average, consumes just over half of this amount. Fibre consists of carbohydrates that are not digested and absorbed by the small intestine. Instead, they pass through the gut and arrive in the large intestine relatively intact, where they