Inulin-Type Fructans as Prebiotics

Prebiotics: Development & Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 57-100

  Van Loo, Jan ^a  

^a ORAFTI   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chicory inulin, 'their roots' in sugar beet processing; Colonic fermentation of different fractions of chicory fructans; Fermentation properties, in nutritional properties of food ingredients; Inflammatory bowel disease and immune system dysfunction; Inulin and oligofructose, as 'dietary fibre' for food labelling; Inulin type fructans as prebiotics; Oligofructose and inulin, bifidogenic in single stage batch culture; Partial enzymatic hydrolysis of chicory inulin, producing oligofructose

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EID: 74349124832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470023150.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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