Resistant starch - implications for health [review]. [Meeting paper]

Dietary fibre is not the only dietary constituent to resist digestion in the small intestine of humans. Most starch-containing foods contain a fraction of starch which also escapes digestion and arrives in the colon undigested. This undigested starch i.e. resistant starch (RS) may have important imp...

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Hauptverfasser: Muir, J.G, O'Dea, K. (Deakin Univ., Malvern (Australia). School of Nutrition and Public Health), Young, G.P. (Melbourne Univ., Parkville (Australia). Dept. of Medicine, Royal Melbourne Hosp.)
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Zusammenfassung:Dietary fibre is not the only dietary constituent to resist digestion in the small intestine of humans. Most starch-containing foods contain a fraction of starch which also escapes digestion and arrives in the colon undigested. This undigested starch i.e. resistant starch (RS) may have important implications along the entire length of the gastrointestinal tract.
ISSN:0314-1004