Functional Food Carbohydrates

ISBN-13: 9780849318221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 588 str.

Costas G. Biliaderis; Marta S. Izydorczyck

Opis

Functional Food Carbohydrates presents comprehensive coverage of a broad range of physiologically active carbohydrate compounds and their roles in the promotion of health and the prevention of disease. It provides the most up-to-date information available on the chemistry, physical properties, processing effects, production, and physiological function of these food constituents. The volume discusses the specific classes of carbohydrates in foods that seem to exert health-enhancing effects based on clinical and/or epidemiological studies and reviews the physiological and metabolic roles that different carbohydrates have in disease prevention and management, focusing on chronic diseases.

Spis treści

Cereal -Glucans: Structure, Physical Properties, and Physiological Functions, Resistant Starch, Konjac Glucomannan, Seed Polysaccharide Gums, Microbial Polysaccharides, Chitosan as a Dietary Supplement and a Food Technology Agent, Arabinoxylans: Technologically and Nutritionally Functional Plant Polysaccharides, Carbohydrates and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Carbohydrates and Obesity, Dietary Carbohydrates and Risk of Cancer, The Role of Carbohydrates in the Prevention and Management of Type 2 Diabetes, Carbohydrates and Mineral Metabolism, Dietary Carbohydrates as Mood and Performance Modulators, Carbohydrates and Gastrointestinal Tract Function, Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics: Functional Ingredients for Microbial Management Strategies, Potential Use of Carbohydrates as Stabilizers and Delivery Vehicles of Bioactive Substances in Foods, Food Regulations: Health Claims for Foods Fortified with Carbohydrates or Other Nutraceuticals

O autorze

Costas G. Biliaderis, Marta S. Izydorczyk