Health Benefits of Dietary Polysaccharides on Metabolic Disorders via Regulating Gut Microbiota
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2023) | Viewed by 19855
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Interests: dietary fiber; structural characterization; chemical modification; quality evaluation; metabolic disorders; gut microbiota
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Interests: phytochemicals; probiotics; prebiotics; gut microbiota; nutrition; functional food
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Interests: proteins; polysaccharides; gut microbiota; metabolic syndrome; safety evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Dietary polysaccharides are well known to have a wide range of health benefits. Due to the complex pathological mechanisms of metabolic disorders, there has still been a lack of reliable clinical interventions to improve metabolic risk factors over a long period of time. Increasing studies have demonstrated that dietary polysaccharides can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, obesity, hyperlipidemia, and other metabolic disorders. However, the potential mechanisms responsible for the beneficial effects of dietary polysaccharides on metabolic disorders remain unclear. As is well known, most dietary polysaccharides cannot be entirely digested or directly absorbed in the human upper gastrointestinal tract, while can be fermented and utilized by human gut microbiota in the colon. Furthermore, with the increasing acknowledgment of the important role of gut microbiota in human health and disease, it has gained increasing attention about the impact of the interaction between dietary polysaccharides and gut microbiota on metabolic disorders. Nevertheless, there is still a big gap to confirm the health benefits of dietary polysaccharides on metabolic disorders mediated by gut microbiota.
This Special Issue aims to focus on how gut microbiota metabolizes dietary polysaccharides and their structure-function relationships on the regulation of gut microbiota, as well as the beneficial effects and mechanisms of action of dietary polysaccharides on metabolic disorders via regulating gut microbiota. We welcome different types of manuscripts, including original research articles and up-to-date reviews.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Structural characterization and physicochemical modification of dietary polysaccharides derived from food materials and their potential to regulate gut microbiota
- Digestive and metabolic behaviors of dietary polysaccharides, as well as the interaction with gut microbiota.
- Structure-function relationships of dietary polysaccharides on the regulation of gut microbiota.
- Health benefits and mechanisms of action of dietary polysaccharides on metabolic disorders by regulating gut microbiota.
Dr. Dingtao Wu
Prof. Dr. Ren-You Gan
Dr. Yichen Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polysaccharides
- characterization and modification
- digestive and metabolic properties
- gut microbiota
- metabolic disorders
- dietary intervention
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