MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH-PROMOTING PROPERTIES IN FRUIT DIETARY-FIBERS - ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY, FERMENTABILITY AND GLUCOSE RETARDATION INDEX

Authors
LARRAURI JA GONI I MARTINCARRON N RUPEREZ P SAURACALIXTO F
Citation
Ja. Larrauri et al., MEASUREMENT OF HEALTH-PROMOTING PROPERTIES IN FRUIT DIETARY-FIBERS - ANTIOXIDANT CAPACITY, FERMENTABILITY AND GLUCOSE RETARDATION INDEX, Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, 71(4), 1996, pp. 515-519
Citations number
22
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture,"Food Science & Tenology
Journal title
Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture → ACNP
ISSN journal
00225142
Volume
71
Issue
4
Year of publication
1996
Pages
515 - 519
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-5142(1996)71:4<515:MOHPIF>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
The aim of this work was to compare some in vitro health-promoting pro perties in fruit dietary fibre (antioxidant activity, fermentability a nd glucose retardation index), which could be useful to predict their physiological effects better than physico-chemical analyses. These pro perties were evaluated in mango and lemon peel fibre. Mango fibre was better than lemon fibre because of the highest values of antioxidant a ctivity (67.6%) and glucose retardation index (21.5%). Antioxidant act ivity is proposed as a new health-promoting property associated to die tary fibre.