Garlic is a common food, and many of its biological functions are attributed to its components
including functional carbohydrates. Garlic polysaccharides and oligosaccharides as main …

Background Agave fructans are natural reserve carbohydrates in agave plants. These
polysaccharides are composed of blends of fructose polymers with different degrees of …

Currently there is a growing interest from the food industry in obtaining inulin for its possible
use in the elaboration of functional foods. A set of optimum extraction conditions was …

Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of three or more metabolic disorders including insulin
resistance, obesity, and hyperlipidemia. Obesity has become the epidemic of the twenty-first …

Bifidobacteria are considered as probiotics due to their role in promoting intestinal health,
including regulating intestinal flora, controlling glycolipid metabolism, anti-colitis effects …

Fermented foods and beverages were among the first processed food products consumed
by humans. Now, fermentation process is in use for processing a vast array of dairy, meats …

Agavins consumption has led to accelerated body weight loss in mice. We investigated the
changes on cecal microbiota and short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) associated with body weight …

Melanoidins present in coffee silverskin, the only by-product of the roasting process, are
formed via the Maillard reaction. The exact structure, biological properties, and mechanism …

This study intends to explore the antihyperglycemic effect and the possible hypoglycemic
mechanism of garlic (Allium sativum L.) polysaccharide (GP) using an animal model …

Methodology combining mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) with ion mobility separation (IMS)
has emerged as a biological imaging technique due to its versatility, sensitivity and label …