Nondigestible carbohydrates and digestive health
Featuring authors from academia as well as industry, this book provides a broad view of carbohydrates influencing digestive health. Part 1 is a general overview of carbohydrates that function as prebiotics or fermentable carbohydrates. Part 2 is a more in depth examination of specific carbohydrates...
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Ames, Iowa :
Wiley-Blackwell ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to fiber and nondigestible carbohydrates: Definition, health aspects, and perspectives
- 2. The gastrointestinal tract and its microflora
- 3. The immunomodulatory effects of dietary fiber and prebiotics in the gastrointestinal tract
- 4. Lower gut hormones and health effects associated with consumption of fermentable fibers
- 5. Animal, in vitro, and cell culture models to study the role of dietary fibers in the gastrointestinal tract of humans
- 6. Impact of fiber on gastrointestinal microbiota
- 7. Fermentable carbohydrates and digestive health
- 8. Overview of dietary fiber and its influence on gastrointestinal health
- 9. Toward second-generation carbohydrate functional food ingredients
- 10. Whole grains and digestive health
- 11. Fermentability of polydextrose, resistant maltodextrin, and other soluble fibers: prebiotic potential
- 12. Development and evaluation bimuno, a noval second-generation prebiotic galactooligosaccharide mixture
- 13. Concluding remarks: gastrointestinal health and nondigestible carbohydrates