Prebiotics

Organic Meat Production and Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 379-405

  Jacob, Jacqueline ^a   Pescatore, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fructo oligosaccharides (FOS); Mannanoligosaccharides (MOS); Oligosaccharides; Polysaccharides; Prebiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872324866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118229088.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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