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Article History

Received: 27 May 2024

Accepted: 14 May 2025

First Online: 30 May 2025

Declarations

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: The Hordaland Health Studies were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics West (HUSK2 2009/852; HUSK3 2017/294). All participants provided informed, written consent prior inclusion. The use of data collected in HUSK2 and HUSK3 in the current study was approved by the Regional Committees for Medical and Health Research Ethics South-East A (ref. 122768). HUSK2 is registered at clinicaltrial.gov (NCT03013725).

: AEB is a member of the International Carbohydrate Quality Consortium (ICQC), an editorial board member of Nutrition, a member of the Scientific Committee of the Transnational Governance of the Nutri-Score system, and a member of the Scientific Advisory Council for Agricultural Policy, Nutrition and Consumer Health Protection, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany. RL is the founder of the Nordic Rye Forum, which is a research and dissemination platform for research related to rye and health that includes academic institutions as well as institutes and food industry with interest in rye across the Nordic region. The forum and its activities are funded by the industrial partners. RL is the PI of several ongoing and finalised projects funded by several cereal industrial companies, such as Lantmännen and their research foundation, Barilla and Oatly. Funding provided have been fully used to carry out scientific studies. RL receives no salary, honorary, or by any other means have any personal economic benefits from industrial collaborations. The other authors share no conflicts of interest. All authors declare to have no financial or non-financial relationships with the organisation that funded the research.