New Frontiers in Starch Digestion and Blood Sugar Level
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2022) | Viewed by 389
Special Issue Editors
Interests: binding interactions between food components and the structure-activity relationships; the extraction and nutritional evaluation of natural products; the effects of food constituents on starch digestion
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Interests: formation and inhibition of late saccharification products; digestion, absorption and function evaluation of procyanidins
Interests: functional carbohydrates; food packaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Starch is a main component of foods for human beings. The velocity and extent of starch digestion has an important influence on blood sugar level after meal, to a large extent. Postprandial hyperglycaemia has been considered as one important factor that leads to the disorder of carbohydrate metabolisms. After ingestion of starchy foods, the starch component is initially digested by salivary and pancreatic α-amylase, producing reducing sugars, such as maltose, maltotriose, and maltooligosaccharides. Then, the reducing sugars are further hydrolyzed by maltase-glucoamylase and sucrase-isomaltase, which exist at intestinal brush border, producing glucose that is adsorbed into portal blood through glucose transporters. In recent years, inhibiting starch digestion, retarding glucose adsorption, and influencing glucose transports and/or metabolisms have been considered as some approaches for regulating postprandial blood glucose level. Therefore, more factors that influence starch digestion and blood sugar level need to be explored to provide us with a better understanding on the relationships between dietary components and carbohydrate metabolisms.
In this Special Issue, the submission of original research, short communications, comprehensive reviews, mini reviews, perspectives or opinions, are welcomed on the themes including but not limit to the following branch topics:
- Relationships between starch digestion and blood sugar level;
- Factors that affect starch digestion both in vitro and in vivo and that influence blood sugar level, such as food components and constituents, food structures, dietary patterns, etc., as well as the mechanisms;
- Effects of starch digestion on proliferation and metabolisms of gut microbiota;
- Effects dietary components on glucose transports and metabolisms;
- Binding interactions between dietary components and starch, carbohydrate-hydrolyzing enzymes, glucose metabolism related enzymes, receptors and proteins;
- Applications of in vitro methodologies for measuring/predicting the glycemia index (GI) of carbohydrate foods.
Dr. Lijun Sun
Dr. Qian Wu
Dr. Wenwen Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- starch
- starch digestion
- blood sugar level
- dietary components
- carbohydrate metabolisms
