Prebiotic starch and fibres

The increased interest in having a healthy life style combined with good eating habits, has resulted in an exceptional increase in the introduction of food containing beneficial ingredients, the so-called functional foods. A large number of these types of food are directed toward the maintenance of a healthy intestinal flora, containing many good microorganisms, termed probiotics. A way to increase the amount of beneficial microorganisms is to consume indigestible carbohydrate, termed prebiotic which only the probiotics can utilize . Resistant starch is provides these functionalities. The project exploits productive effect of probiotics prebiotic systems using selected probiotic strains and prebiotic carbohydrates. 

 

Selected publications

Shetty, N.P., Jensen, J.D., Knudsen, A., Finnie, C., Geshi, N., Blennow, A., Collinge, D.B. and Jørgensen, H.J.L. (2009) Effects of β-1,3-glucan from Septoria tritici on structural defence responses in wheat J. Exp. Bot. 60/15, 4287-4300.