Oligo-fructoses

Roberfroid, M., Gibson, G.R., and Delzenne, N., The biochemistry of oligo-fructose, a nondigestible fiber an approach to calculate its caloric value, Nutr. Rev., 51, 137-146, 1993. 

The British system does not automatically give approval to new ingredients merely because they are natural. This is in contrast with the position in some other countries - there will always be grey areas. One example is the position of the oligo-fructose polymers which are naturally present in chicory. Chicory is undoubtedly a traditional food... 

Gibbs energy change is available to enable synthesis of oligo- and poly-saccharides by sucrose-type enzymes that use sucrose as a substrate for the transfer of glucose or fructose. 

Carbohydrates generally supply about 45% of our energy requirement. Dietary carbohydrates include monosaccharides (such as glucose and fructose), disaccharides (such as sucrose and lactose), and the longermonosaccharide units arc classed as oligosaccharides.) Dietary polysaccharides include starches, such as amyJose and amylopectin, and some of the dietary fibers. 

DFA Formation by Treatment of Fructose and Fmctose-Containing Oligo- and... 

Simple carbohydrates (cellulose, starch, glucose, fructose, inulin, chitin, etc.) extracted from biomass, oligo- and polysaccharides of microbial or algal origin and derivatives thereof play a very important role in many sectors ranging from textiles and specialty chemicals to cosmetics, and food and feed industries. Large-scale carbohydrate-based processes in these sectors are well established and based on relatively simple chemical or biotechnological... 

Enzymes produced by the villi are sucrase, which converts sucrose to glucose and fructose maltase, which breaks down maltose to two molecules of glucose lactase, which hydrolyses lactose to one molecule of glucose and one of galactose and oligo-1,6-glucosidase, which attacks the a-(1 6) links in limit dextrins. Aminopeptidases act on the peptide bond adjacent to the free amino group of simple peptides, whereas dipeptidases complete the breakdown of dipeptides to amino acids. 

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