Inulin

Food Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 180-197

  Wouters, Rudy ^a  

^a BENEO Group   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chicory inulin white, odourless powder with high purity; Chicory, biennial plant industrial production of inulin; Differential scanning calorimetry analysis of inulin gel and two characteristic peaks; Gel strength development with time for inulin gel; Gelling behaviour; Inulin storage carbohydrate found in plants; Inulin used for nutritional advantages and technological properties; Inulin, polydisperse, linear carbohydrate and fructose units; Jerusalem artichoke with high inulin content; Principle of fat replacement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889479003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314724.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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