Bruce R. Hamaker

TL;DR: It is proposed that protein crosslinking may be the greatest factor that influences sorghum protein digestibility and may be between γ- and β-kafirin proteins at the protein body periphery, which may impede digestion of the centrally located major storage protein.

TL;DR: The large quantity of green cull bananas has the potential of being used industrially and, thereby, to improve banana economics and eliminate the large environmental problem presented by banana waste as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A global framework needs to be developed to better understand how dietary fibers can be used to obtain predicted changes in microbiota composition for improved health and this will require a multi-disciplinary effort that includes biological scientists, clinicians, and carbohydrate specialists.

TL;DR: Consistently, similar degrees of crystallinity, comparable gelatinization behavior, and similar debranched profiles of starch residuals following different digestion times indicated that the crystalline and amorphous regions of starch granules were evenly digested through a mechanism of side-by-side digestion of concentric layers of semicrystalline shells of native starch granule.

TL;DR: It is shown that the dominance of Prevotella versus Bacteroides in fecal innocula, identified into two different enterotypes, differentially impacts in vitro fermentation profiles of SCFAs from fibers with different chemical structures.