MICROBIAL DIGESTION OF COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES IN MAN
MICROBIAL DIGESTION OF COMPLEX CARBOHYDRATES IN MAN
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DOI:
10.1079/pns19840025
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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7
通讯作者:
CUMMINGS, JH
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作者:
CUMMINGS, JH
Fig. I. Dietary intake (amount digested (0) plus faecal excretion (B)) of the principal cell-wall polysaccharides, cellulose (Cell.) and non-cellulosic polysaccharides (NCP), in three groups of healthy human volunteers given typical UK diets under controlled conditions (Control) and then the same diet with the addition of either bran, ispaghula or pectin. From* Southgate et af.(I 976), tPrynne & Southgate (1979), tCummings et af.(1979). remains. Fig. I shows the results of three recent studies of groups of healthy adults in which dietary cellulose and NCP intakes and faecal excretion of these polymers have been measured using the techniques of Southgate (1976). Both the cellulose and NCP from the control diets (which were typical mixed UK diets) are extensively degraded. The cell-wall polysaccharides in added bran are partly degraded, in ispaghula substantially and the pectin completely so. The relative resistance of bran to digestion has been noted by others (Heller et al. 1980; Stephen & Cummings, 1980~). Its poor digestibility in human dietary studies is one example of the wide variability that occurs in fermentable polysaccharide breakdown. In ruminant nutrition this variability has important physiological, and economic, implications but in man it has received little attention. A number of chemical and physical characteristics of these polysaccharides may influence their breakdown including, for example, the extent of lignification of the cell-wall polymers (bran cell-walls being one of the most lignified of human foods), their water solubility (generally water-soluble polysaccharides such as pectin are highly digestible), associated silica and cuticular substances (which are thought to inhibit breakdown in the rumen), particle size (the finer the particle the more readily digestible), molecular structure, the level of intake, food processing (for example, heating and drying) and possibly previous diet. Host factors affecting breakdown will include the type of gut microflora and transit time (see review, Cummings 1982). https://doi. org/10.1079/PNS19840025 Published online by Cambridge University Press