Microbial polysaccharides

Functional Food Carbohydrates

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 167-214

  Giavasis, Ioannis ^a   Biliaderis, Costas G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER; HUMAN DIET; MICROBIAL POLYSACCHARIDE;

POLYSACCHARIDES;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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