In the last century, starch present in foods was considered to be completely digested.
However, during the 1980s, studies on starch digestion started to show that besides …

Despite the growing demand for green banana (GB) products, there is no review study
regarding their potential health benefits. We aimed to compare the health benefits among …

Sources of dietary fibre can induce satiety and impact energy consumption. Herein, healthy
volunteers consumed unripe banana flour (UBF), rich in resistant starch (5 g/8 g UBF), non …

Dietary fibers from agavins and green banana flour are resistant to digestion but promote
beneficial fermentation by gut microbiota. Therefore, the main of this work was evaluate …

Fruit thinning is a cultivation technique that is widely applied in horticulture in order to obtain
high-quality horticultural crops. This practice results in the discarding of a large number of …

This study evaluated the effect of green banana flour (GBF) consumption on obesity-related
conditions in mice fed high-fat diets. GBF was prepared using stage 1 green banana pulp …

The present review provides a comprehensive discussion of the prebiotic, anti‐diabetic, anti‐
colorectal cancer, and anti‐cardiovascular disease effects of unripe banana flour resistant …

Purpose To determine whether green banana powder (GBP) and pineapple fibre powder
(PFP) promote beneficial bacterial species, directly improve human gut health and modulate …

High postprandial glycemia in the non-diabetic population is one of the known universal
mechanisms for the progression of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), which have …

This study focused on the effect of ripening on in vitro digestibility and the multi-scale
structural characteristics of plantain starch. It was shown that the RS content of plantain …