Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition

George Inglett

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN:
  9780323157018
• Print ISBN:
  9780123709509
• Subtopic: Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition contains the proceedings of a symposium on Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition held during the American Chemical Society meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, on September 11-15, 1978. The papers explore the chemical and nutritional aspects of dietary fibers and cover a wide range of topics dealing with analysis, biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, microbiology, and physiology. This book is comprised of 18 chapters and begins by assessing the interactions between small molecules and hydrated polymer networks, paying particular attention to some structural features of gel-fiber systems as well as partitioning and transport phenomena. The complex structure of dietary fibers found in cell walls are reviewed, along with the metabolic effects of dietary fibers related to mineral binding, blood cholesterol and other lipids, glucose tolerance, bile acids, and carcinogens and cocarcinogens. The interactions of metabolic substances with polysaccharides and lignins are also examined. This monograph will be a valuable resource for biochemists, nutritionists, and nutritional scientists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Dietary Fibers: Chemistry and Nutrition
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• CONTRIBUTORS
• PREFACE
• CHAPTER 1. INTERACTIONS OF SMALL MOLECULES WITH HYDRATED POLYMER NETWORKS
• CHAPTER 2. LIGNIN DISTRIBUTION BY ENERGY DISPERSIVE X–RAY ANALYSIS
• CHAPTER 3. INTERACTION OF PECTINACEOUS DIETARY FIBER WITH SOME METALS AND LIPIDS
• CHAPTER 4. DIETARY FIBER – BILE ACID INTERACTIONS
• CHAPTER 5. DIFFERENTIAL ADSORPTION OF BILE ACIDS BY LIGNINS
• CHAPTER 6. FOOD FIBER ANALYSIS: ADVANCES IN METHODOLOGY
• CHAPTER 7. DIETARY FIBER EVALUATION OF WHEAT PRODUCTS BY IN VITRO AND IN VIVO METHODS
• CHAPTER 8. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DIETARY CEREAL FIBER
• CHAPTER 9. THE NUTRITIONAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CHEMICALLY DEFINED DIETARY FIBERS
• CHAPTER 10. EFFECTS OF DIETARY FIBER AND PROTEIN LEVEL ON MINERAL ELEMENT METABOLISM
• CHAPTER 11. SOME EFFECTS OF BAKING AND HUMAN GASTROINTESTINAL ACTION UPON A HARD RED WHEAT BRAN
• CHAPTER 12. EFFECT OF DIETARY FIBER ON PARAMETERS OF GLUCOSE TOLERANCE IN HUMANS
• CHAPTER 13. DIGESTION OF PLANT CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDES BY BACTERIA FROM THE HUMAN COLON
• CHAPTER 14. IN VITRO BINDING OF BILE ACIDS BY RICE HEMICELLULOSES
• CHAPTER 15. THE CHEMISTRY, MORPHOLOGY AND ANALYSIS OF DIETARY FIBER COMPONENTS
• CHAPTER 16. EUROPEAN EFFORTS IN DIETARY FIBER CHARACTERIZATION
• CHAPTER 17. THE INTERACTIONS OF CARCINOGENS AND CO-CARCINOGENS WITH LIGNIN AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF DIETARY FIBER
• CHAPTER 18. THE INFLUENCE OF LIGNIN ON THE LIPID METABOLISM OF THE RAT
• INDEX