Given the high cost of production of animal-based meats and the increase in the number of
adepts of meatless diets, the need for plant-based meat substitutes is growing. In this …

Agro-industrial processing activities generate by-products that are discarded at high
economic and environmental costs; however, many of them still contain high levels of …

Raspberries have high content of antioxidants; however, there is a lack of information about
the functional composition of their dietary fibre. In this work, the total dietary fibre and its …

Basic concept behind nutraceuticals is to “take care about what you eat and stay healthy.”
Stephen De-Felice coined the term Nutraceuticals, which is a portmanteau of “nutrient” and …

Growing prevalence of diseases like diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases demands
some serious changes in our eating habits, and shifting to low glycemic foods is one of them …

Fruit peels are agroindustrial co‐products that can be employed as a source of dietary fiber
and bioactive compounds with an effect on the physicochemical and structural …

The intestinal microbiome of dogs can be influenced by a number of factors such as non-
starch polysaccharides as well as some non-digestible oligo-and disaccharides. These …

Background Breeding pigs that can efficiently digest alternative diets with increased fiber
content is a viable strategy to mitigate the feed cost in pig production. This study aimed at …

Dietary Fiber (DF) is a plant bioactive compound, mainly a mixture of complex organic
soluble and non-soluble polysaccharides that is non-digestible and less hydrophobic. This …

Worldwide, there is an increasing demand for plant-based food due to sustainable, health,
ethical, religious, philosophical, and economic reasons. In Brazil, 14% of the population …