A review of health-beneficial properties of oats

D Paudel, B Dhungana, M Caffe, P Krishnan - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Oat is among the food crops and ancient grains cultivated and consumed worldwide. It is
gaining in popularity owing to its nutritional composition and multifunctional benefits of …

Beta glucan: health benefits in obesity and metabolic syndrome

D El Khoury, C Cuda, BL Luhovyy… - Journal of nutrition and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the lack of international agreement regarding the definition and classification of
fiber, there is established evidence on the role of dietary fibers in obesity and metabolic …

Nutraceuticals and functional foods: the foods for the future world

K Gul, AK Singh, R Jabeen - Critical reviews in food science and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The health and wellness of human beings is largely dictated by the consumption of nutritious
foods. Various studies have linked foods as helpful in combating a number of degenerative …

The physiological roles of dietary fibre

IA Brownlee - Food hydrocolloids, 2011 - Elsevier
The term dietary fibre (indigestible carbohydrates of plant origin) encompasses a range of
divergent compounds that differentially affect numerous important gastrointestinal and …

Gut fermentation of dietary fibres: physico-chemistry of plant cell walls and implications for health

BA Williams, LJ Grant, MJ Gidley… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
The majority of dietary fibre (DF) originates from plant cell walls. Chemically, DF mostly
comprise carbohydrate polymers, which resist hydrolysis by digestive enzymes in the …

Cereal B-glucans: The impact of processing and how it affects physiological responses

M Henrion, C Francey, KA Lê, L Lamothe - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cereal β-glucans are dietary fibres primarily found in oats and barley, and have several
positive effects on health, including lowering the postprandial glucose response and the …

[HTML][HTML] Physicochemical properties of oat β-glucan influence its ability to reduce serum LDL cholesterol in humans: a randomized clinical trial

TMS Wolever, SM Tosh, AL Gibbs… - The American journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
Background: Consumption of 3 g oat β-glucan/d is considered sufficient to lower serum LDL
cholesterol, but some studies have shown no effect. LDL cholesterol lowering by oat β …

High molecular weight barley β-glucan alters gut microbiota toward reduced cardiovascular disease risk

Y Wang, NP Ames, HM Tun, SM Tosh… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The physiological cholesterol-lowering benefits of β-glucan have been well documented,
however, whether modulation of gut microbiota by β-glucan is associated with these …

The effect of oat β-glucan on postprandial blood glucose and insulin responses: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A Zurbau, JC Noronha, TA Khan… - European journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
To determine the effect of oat β‑glucan (OBG) on acute glucose and insulin responses and
identify significant effect modifiers we searched the MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of oat β-glucan, oat resistant starch, and the whole oat flour on insulin resistance, inflammation, and gut microbiota in high-fat-diet-induced type 2 …

Y Zhu, L Dong, L Huang, Z Shi, J Dong, Y Yao… - Journal of Functional …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study was aimed to compare the beneficial effects of oat β-glucan (OG), oat resistant
starch (ORS), and whole oat foods (WO), and explore the correlations between the key …