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The development and use of methods to identify the various actions of dietary complex carbohydrates - AN0302
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Description
Since the nutritional significance of dietary complex
carbohydrates is now established, a more meaningful measure
which is related to function of dietary complex
carbohydrates is required. The present methods for
measurement are entirely quantitative and provide no insight
into their biological potency. The disparate actions of
each dietary complex carbohydrate source can be defined in
man only by very time consuming and expensive experiments.
There is now a need to develop in vitro methods to
substantially replace human and animal experiments. Animal
experiments will be performed to test the validity of the in
vitro methods of assay which have so far only been
validated for isolated fibre sources. The experiments will
examine the physiscal form of foods and cooking methods and
will initially look at cereals, vegetables and fruits eaten
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Objective
To evaluate and develop in vitro models for screening
complex carbohydrates for their biological properties, with
the aim of reducing the number of time-consuming animal and
human experiments and facilitating the design of more
precise nutritional studies. |
Time-Scale and Cost
From:
1990
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To:
1994
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Cost: £71,776 |
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Contractor / Funded Organisations
University - Edinburgh |
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