Comparative prebiotic activity of mixtures of cereal grain polysaccharides

Abstract The main components of the non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) fraction of wheat flour are arabinoxylan (AX) and β-glucan. These are also present in other cereal grains, but their proportions vary with AX being the major component in wheat and rye and β-glucan in barley and oats. Therefore, it...

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Main Authors: Suzanne Harris, Andrea Monteagudo-Mera, Ondrej Kosik, Dimitris Charalampopoulos, Peter Shewry, Alison Lovegrove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:AMB Express
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13568-019-0925-z