New research tools and insights are enabling researchers to obtain a much better insight in the mechanisms of action of bio-active carbohydrates.
These include new analytical methods, model systems to measure the impact of fibre on processes in the gastro-intestinal tract and the identification and measurement of new biomarkers, for example markers related to satiety.
These insights and tools, will significantly contribute to R&D on ingredients and products aiming at imparting significant health benefits.
Dietary Fibre addresses the following issues:
- Definitions, health claims and new challenges,
- Analytical tools, technological aspects and applications,
- Health Benefits of dietary fibre, including both authoritative generic reviews and papers describing the impact on health of specific types of fibre and
- Health aspects for target groups, with broad overviews on issues related to dietary fibre in clinical nutrition and in food for pets.
Dietary Fibre will therefore cover the most up-to-date research available on dietary fibre and will be an indispensable tool for all scientists involved in research and development in this field.
Contents:
- Definitions, health claims and new challenges
- Definition and analysis of dietary fibre in the context of food carbohydrates
- Health claims, options for dietary fibre
- Whole grain health claims in the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden
- Dietary fibres - New challenges for research
- Analytical tools, technological aspects and applications
- Rapid bio-analytical methods - New developments
- Analytical characterization of carbohydrates: From polymer through oligomer to monomer
- Advanced in vitro models of the gastro-intestinal tract - Novel tools to study functionality of dietary fibres
- The importance of food structure on the glycaemic responses of carbohydrate rich foods
- Dietary fibres: their uses in dairy based applications
- Importance of phytosterols, folates and other bioactive compounds in cereals
- Health benefits of dietary fibre
- Dietary fibre intake, disease prevention, and health promotion: An overview with emphasis on evidence from epidemiology
- Experimental studies of dietary fibre and colon cancer- an overview
- Epidemiology of dietary fibre and colorectal cancer
- Dietary fibre, lipid metabolism and cardiovascular disease
- Intestinal flora and health
- Health benefits of specific types of dietary fibre
- Cholesterol-lowering activity of insoluble fibre from carob
- Effects of resistant maltodextrin on metabolism of glucose and lipids
- Effect of extra-cellular polysaccharides on satiety
- The effect of various inulins and Clostridium difficile on the metabolic activity and composition of the human colonic microbiota in vitro
- The role of prebiotic fibres in the process of calcium absorption
- Health aspects for target groups
- The effect of inulin/fructo-oligosaccharide as a prebiotic ingredient in baby formulae
- The role of fibre in clinical nutrition
- The role of dietary fibre in companion animal nutrition
- Xylo-oligosaccharides alter metabolism of gut microbes and blood xylose levels in chicks
- Chapter 6. The dietary fibre 2003 conference: An overview
- The dietary fibre 2003 conference: An overview
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