Polypeptides with xylanase activity modified to increase bran solubilization and/or xylanase activity. The modification comprises at least an amino acid modification i position 110 and may have further modifications of one or more amino acids in position 11, 12, 13, 34, 54, 77, 81, 99, 104, 113, 114, 118, 122, 141, 154, 159, 162, 164, 166 or 175 wherein the positions are determined as the position corresponding the position of Bacillus subtilis xylanase (SEQ ID NO 1) The polypeptides have at least 88% identity with SEQ ID NO 1 or 75% identity to a sequence selected from SEQ ID NO 2-22.