(1) Background: Carbohydrates are the most important source of nutritional energy for the
human body. Carbohydrate digestion, metabolism, and their role in the gut microbiota …

Oligosaccharides derived from agar, that is, agarooligosaccharides and
neoagarooligosaccharides, have demonstrated various kinds of bioactivities which have …

Accumulating evidence suggests that high-fat diet (HFD) induced metabolic disorders are
associated with dysbiosis of gut microbiota. However, no study has explored the effect of …

Scope Obesity is becoming a major public health problem due to excess dietary fat intake.
Dendrobium officinale (D. officinale) is a medicine food homology plant and exerts multiple …

ι-Carrageenan tetrasaccharide (ιCTs), a novel oligosaccharide, was hydrolyzed from ι-
carrageenan with targeting marine tool-enzyme Cgi82A. Previously, we have found ιCTs …

Agaro-oligosaccharides originating from red algae have attracted increasing attention in
both basic theoretical research and applied fields due to their excellent bioactivities, which …

This work aimed to evaluate the effect of oral administration of probiotic Lactobacillus (L.)
fermentum CRL1446, with feruloyl esterase (FE) activity, on metabolic biomarkers and …

Marine polysaccharides are widely present in the marine algae and marine organisms
making them easy to obtain. Moreover, marine polysaccharides attract global attention from …

Cancer cachexia and the associated skeletal muscle wasting are considered poor
prognostic factors, although effective treatment has not yet been established. Recent studies …

Consumption of yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius) is associated with beneficial effects such
as prevention of metabolic diseases. Yacon root is known to contain various bioactive …