A water-soluble fraction from a by-product of wheat increases the formation of propionic acid in rats compared with diets based on other by-product fractions and oligofructose
Dietary fibre is fermented by the colonic microbiota to carboxylic acids (CA), with potential health effects associated in particular with butyric and propionic acid.To investigate the formation of CA in the hindgut of healthy rats fed dietary fibre from different fractions of wheat shorts, a by-pro...
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Language: | English |
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Swedish Nutrition Foundation
2011-10-01
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Series: | Food & Nutrition Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.foodandnutritionresearch.net/index.php/fnr/article/view/6397/12603 |