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CUMMINGS J H, MACFARLANE G T, ENGLYST H N (2001) Prebiotic digestion and fermentation. Am J Clin Nutr. 73 415S-20S. 

NSP content of soy bean meal and HWS was determined by the method of Englyst and Cummings [5]. The starch was enzymatically hydrolysed, the residue was dried and the sugar composition was determined. 

Lagerkvist BJ, Ekesrydh S, Englyst V, et al. 1996. Increased blood lead and decreased calcium levels during pregnancy a prospective study of Swedish women living near a smelter. Am J Public Health 86 1247-1252. 

Lundstrom NG, Nordberg G, Englyst V, et al. 1997. Cumulative lead exposure in relation to mortality and lung cancer morbidity in a cohort of primary smelter workers. Scand J Work Environ Health 23(l) 24-30. 

DF dietary fiber Cel cellulose Rha rhamnose Fuc fucose Ara arabinose Xyl xylose Man mannose Gal galactose Glu glucose U. ac. uronic acids KL Klason lignin n.d. not determined t traces Source Englyst and Cummings 1988 Englyst and others 1988 Marlett and Vollendorf 1994. 

Englyst HN, Bingham SA, Runswick SA, Collinson E and Cummings JH. 1988. Dietary fibre (non-starch polysaccharides) in fruit, vegetables and nuts. J Hum Nutr Diet 1 247-286. 

Englyst HN and Cummings JH. 1988. Improved method for measurement of dietary fiber as non-starch polysaccharides in plant foods. JAOAC 71 808-814. 

Dietary Fibre. An area of some contention is what should be included as dietary fibre. There are several different methods of measuring dietary fibre and all of them will give different results on the same sample. The EU favours the Association of Analytical Chemists (AOAC) method, which includes lignin and resistant starch, while the UK has preferred the Englyst method and has defined fibre as nonstarch polysaccharides from cell walls as the only substances that count as fibre. 

Englyst, H.N. and Cummings, J.H. (1984) Simplified method for the measurement of total non-starch polysaccharides by gas-liquid chromatography of constituent sugars as alditol acetates. Analyst 109, 937-942. 

Englyst,H. N., Kingman, S. M., Cummings, J. H. (1992). Classification and measurement of nutritionally important starch fractions. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 46, S33-S50. 

Kingman and Englyst (1994) In vitro SDRI (Starch digestion rate index = RDS/total starch)... 

In the UK fibre is defined as non-starch polysaccharides (NS P) and for consistency the Englyst analytical method has been adopted (Englyst and Cummings, 1988). 

Gerhardsson L, Chettle DR, Englyst V, et al. 1992. Kidney effects in long term exposed lead smelter workers. BrJ Ind Med 49 186-192. 

Englyst HN, Cummings JH. Cereals in a European Context. In Morton ID, ed. First European Conference on Food Science and Technology. Chichester, UK/Weinheim Federal Republic of Germany Ellis Horwood Ltd/VCH 1987 221-233. 

Englyst et al.248 classified starch into three types RSI, RS2 and RS3. RSI is a starch protected from digestion in the small intestine by a food matrix, such as the intact endosperm of a wheat kernel. RS2 is simply unswollen granular starch. RS3 is starch that was gelatinized, but then retrograded to become enzyme-resistant. Chemically modified (e.g. crosslinked) starch (RS4) has been added to the list.242 The four forms of resistant starch and their measurement are described by Nugent246 and Sajilata et al.249... 

Cummings JH, Englyst HN. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 1995 61(Suppl.) 938S. 

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