Résumé
Eight different talks presenting works on rice bran composition and properties were presented by speakers from four distinct continents: USA, Brazil, Mali and France. These talks allowed pointing out the high amount of beneficial compounds for health in bran rice and their potential to improve human health especially malnourished and sick children in poor countries. However, the general use of bran rice nowadays is devoted to animal nutrition even if some countries in Asia and Africa begin to understand its health potential in human nutrition. The different teams work on a better understanding of bran rice constituting compounds and their health effects, notably using metabolomic approaches and intervention studies. Researchers also analyse the potential presence of toxic molecules, such as mycotoxin heavy metals, or pesticides or unfavourable microorganisms and develop studies to evaluate conditions that favour their presence or develop process to lower their content.Taking advantages of the presence of actors from the overall rice chain-value including geneticists, biochemists, microbiologists, nutritionists and users, a final short debate was conducted around two main points:-Could you think possible to use part of rice bran fraction generally devoted to animal nutrition in human food? -Do you think the actual diversity will be sufficient and perennial to fulfil the bran use in human nutrition?The interest of continuing studies on rice bran composition and health effects was unanimously recognised. Indeed a “VALOBRAN” consortium of researchers was initiated around this topic and sustained with an help from MUSE.VALOBRAN consortium gathering: Elisabeth P. Ryan (CSU), Mariana Larraz Ferreira (UNIRIO), Millena Santos Barros (UNIRIO-INRAE-CIRAD), Valérie Lullien-Pellerin (INRAE), Rallou Thomopoulos (INRAE), Carole Antoine-Assor (INRAE), Cécile Barron (INRAE), Claire Bourlieu (INRAE), Valérie Micard (SupAgro), Maria Cruz Figueroa (SupAgro), Pierre Villeneuve (CIRAD), Jérome Lecomte (CIRAD), Erwann Durand (CIRAD), Nathalie Barouh (CIRAD), Bruno Baréa (CIRAD), Genevieve Fliedel (CIRAD), Christelle Humblot (IRD), Frank Wirienga (IRD).