Cláudia Amorim

TL;DR: The updated definition of prebiotic expands the range of potential applications in which emerging xylooligosaccharides (XOS) can be used, and it has been demonstrated that XOS exhibitPrebiotic effects at lower amounts compared to others, making them competitively priced prebiotics.

TL;DR: One-step fermentation proved to be a promising strategy for AXOS production from BSG, presenting a performance comparable with the use of commercial enzymes, enabling further developments of low-cost bioprocesses for the production of these valuable compounds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied chromium(III) biosorption using unmodified spent grains residual from a Portuguese brewing industry both in batch and expanded bed column systems and found that the best performance was achieved with unmodified used spent grains: Breakthrough time (C/C ≥ 0.25) and total saturation time (c/C ∼ 0.99) occurred after 58 and 199h of operation.

TL;DR: It is suggested that raffinose holds potential functional properties for human health, as shown in an in vitro model using human fecal inocula of two healthy volunteers.

TL;DR: When compared with the enzymatic hydrolysis process, single-step fermentation with B. subtilis proved to be a very promising low-cost strategy for the simultaneous production of AXOS and valorization of BSG.