Dietary fibre has long been established as a nutritionally important, health-promoting food
ingredient. Modern dietary practices have seen a significant reduction in fibre consumption …

Starch is an essential source of energy for the human diet. Resistant starch is the portion of
starch that is not digested in the small intestine and is fermented in the colon by …

Starch retrogradation is a consequential part of food processing that greatly impacts the
texture and acceptability of products containing both starch and proteins, but the effect of …

Background The starchy crops which normally form the staple diet of people are rich in
carbohydrates. People leading a sedentary lifestyle and consuming high amounts of …

Citrus plants belonging to the family Rutaceae which include fruits such as orange,
mandarin, lime, lemon, sour orange and grapefruitappear as a well known promising source …

Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource
depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly vulnerable global agri …

Fruit processing industries contribute more than 0.5 billion tonnes of waste worldwide. The
global availability of this feedstock and its untapped potential has encouraged researchers …

Polysaccharides derived from plant foods are major components of the human diet, with
limited contributions of related components from fungal and algal sources. In particular …

Western lifestyle is linked to autoimmune and metabolic diseases, driven by changes in diet
and gut microbiota composition. Using Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7)-dependent mouse models …

Natural polysaccharides from different sources have long been studied and widely used in
different areas, such as food and feed, medicine and pharmaceutics, and in papermaking. In …