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Dietary fibre and fibre-rich by-products of food processing: Characterisation, technological functionality and commercial applications: A review

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In this paper, analytical methods and fractionation techniques of dietary fibres are evaluated for improving physical and structural properties of hydration, oil holding capacity, viscosity, texture, sensory characteristics, and shelf-life.
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This article is published in Food Chemistry.The article was published on 2011-01-15. It has received 1263 citations till now.

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Dietary fiber and prebiotics and the gastrointestinal microbiota.

TL;DR: The current knowledge of the impact of fiber and prebiotic consumption on the composition and metabolic function of the human gastrointestinal microbiota is reviewed, including the effects of physiochemical properties of complex carbohydrates, adequate intake and treatment dosages, and the phenotypic responses related to the composition of thehuman microbiota.
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Composition, properties and health benefits of indigestible carbohydrate polymers as dietary fiber: a review.

TL;DR: Inclusion of indigestible carbohydrates as dietary fiber in daily diet imparts several health benefits such as prevention or reduction of bowel disorders, and decrease risk of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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In vitro antioxidant properties of crude extracts and compounds from brown algae

TL;DR: In vitro antioxidant chemical methods, used as a first approach to evaluate potential agents to protect from lipid oxidation in foods, confirmed that the brown algae crude extracts, fractions and pure components are comparatively similar or superior to synthetic antioxidants.
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Chemical, technological and in vitro antioxidant properties of mango, guava, pineapple and passion fruit dietary fibre concentrate.

TL;DR: Exotic fruit fibres obtained as co-products in the process to obtain juice may be considered a good source of natural compounds with significant antioxidant activity and a good correlation between total phenol content and antioxidant capacity.
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Development of high-fruit-dietary-fibre muffins

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed muffins in which peach dietary fibre (DF) was added at 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10% levels, substituting up to 32% flour.
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Determination of Inulin and Oligofructose in Food Products, and Integration in the AOAC Method for Measurement of Total Dietary Fibre

TL;DR: In this paper, a modification of the AOAC method is proposed to quantitatively include β-fructans in the determination of the soluble dietary fibre fraction, which has been tested for the quantitative assessment of its inulin or oligofructose content.
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The analysis of dietary fibre--the choices for the analyst.

TL;DR: It is suggested that methods of this type are necessary to characterise dietary fibre analytically in order to account for the properties of dietary fibre.
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Isolation and structural characterization of a pectin homo and ramnogalacturonan.

TL;DR: It has been shown that the apple pectin consist mainly of linear homogalacturonan and branched ramnogalACTuronan macromolecules.
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