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Global view on functional foods: European perspectives by Roberfroid, M. B.

“…In the context of this presentation, European means the European scientific community, which, over the last decade, has been working on the concepts for…”
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Prebiotics and synbiotics: concepts and nutritional properties by Roberfroid, M. B.

“…The main role of diet is to provide enough nutrients to meet the requirements of a balanced diet, while giving the consumer a feeling of satisfaction and…”
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Prebiotics and probiotics : are they functional foods ? by ROBERFROID, M. B

“…A probiotic is a viable microbial dietary supplement that beneficially affects the host through its effects in the intestinal tract. Probiotics are widely used…”
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Experimental evidences on the potential of prebiotic fructans to reduce the risk of colon cancer by Pool-Zobel, B., van Loo, J., Rowland, I., Roberfroid, M. B.

“…Inulin is extracted from the chicory root. It is a set of fructans with its monomers (n=2–65) linked by means of β(2–1) bonds. This linkage cannot be…”
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Dietary modulation of the human colonic microbiota: introducing the concept of prebiotics by Gibson, G R, Roberfroid, M B

“…Because the human gut microbiota can play a major role in host health, there is currently some interest in the manipulation of the composition of the gut flora…”
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Dietary fructans by Roberfroid, M.B. (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussles, Belgium.), Delzenne, N.M

“…Fructan is a general term used for any carbohydrate in which one or more fractosyl-fructose link constitutes the majority of osidic bonds. This review focuses…”
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Concepts and strategy of functional food science : the European perspective by ROBERFROID, M. B

“…Recent knowledge supports the hypothesis that, beyond meeting nutrition needs, diet may modulate various functions in the body and play detrimental or…”
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Concepts in functional foods: the case of inulin and oligofructose by Roberfroid, M B

“…Recent advances in biosciences support the hypothesis that diet modulates various body functions. Diet may maintain well-being and reduce the risk of some…”
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The bifidogenic nature of chicory inulin and its hydrolysis products by Roberfroid, M B, Van Loo, J A, Gibson, G R

“…Research data on the bifidogenic effect of beta(2-1)fructans, which at present are commercialized in the U.S., Japan and Europe as food ingredients, are…”
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Caloric value of inulin and oligofructose by Roberfroid, M B

“…Dietary carbohydrates, which are absorbed as hexose, (glucose, fructose) have a caloric value of 3.9 kcal/g (16.3 kJ/g), and their cellular metabolism produces…”
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Health benefits of non-digestible oligosaccharides by Roberfroid, M B

“…Non-digestible oligosaccharides are complex carbohydrates of the non-a-glucan type which, because of the configuration of their osidic bonds, resist hydrolysis…”
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Inulin/oligofructose and anticancer therapy by Taper, H. S., Roberfroid, M. B.

“…The results of our investigations indicate that dietary treatment with inulin or oligofructose incorporated in the basal diet for experimental animals: (i)…”
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What is beneficial for health? The concept of functional food by Roberfroid, M.B

“…‘Functional Food’ is now a very popular term. The conceptual approach developed in the EU-founded FUFOSE (Functional Food Science in Europe) project is rather…”
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Functional Effects of Food Components and the Gastrointestinal System: Chicory Fructooligosaccharides by Roberfroid, Marcel B.

“…Functional food science, as recently proposed by ILSI Europe, opens new perspectives in nutrition and food sciences. The systematic investigation of the…”
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A new look at dietary carbohydrate : chemistry, physiology and health by CUMMINGS, J. H, ROBERFROID, M. B, LAIRON, D, PASCAL, G, VORAGEN, A. G. S, ANDERSSON, H, BARTH, C, FERRO-LUZZI, A, GHOOS, Y, GIBNEY, M, HERMONSEN, K, JAMES, W. P. T, KORVER, O

“…The current view of dietary carbohydrates as simply providing us with energy is outdated. Because of their varied chemistry and physical form the rate and…”
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Comparison of viable cell counts and fluorescence in situ hybridization using specific rRNA-based probes for the quantification of human fecal bacteria by Harmsen, H.J.M., Gibson, G.R., Elfferich, P., Raangs, G.C., Wildeboer-Veloo, A.C.M., Argaiz, A., Roberfroid, M.B., Welling, G.W.

“…Abstract Conventional cultivation and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using 16S rRNA-based probes were compared for the enumeration of human colonic…”
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Insulin, glucagon-like peptide 1, glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide and insulin-like growth factor I as putative mediators of the hypolipidemic effect of oligofructose in rats by Kok, N N, Morgan, L M, Williams, C M, Roberfroid, M B, Thissen, J P, Delzenne, N M

“…The addition of oligofructose as a dietary fiber decreases the serum concentration and the hepatic release of VLDL-triglycerides in rats. Because glucose,…”
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Growth inhibition of transplantable mouse tumors by non‐digestible carbohydrates by Taper, Henryk S., Delzenne, Nathalie M., Roberfroid, Marcel B.

“…The possible influence of dietary non‐digestible carbohydrates (15% oligofructose, inulin or pectin incorporated in basal diet) on the growth of…”
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Prebiotics : preferential substrates for specific germs? by ROBERFROID, Marcel B

“…A prebiotic is "a non-digestible food ingredient that beneficially affects the host by selectively stimulating the growth and/or the activity of one or a…”
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Nontoxic Potentiation of Cancer Chemotherapy by Dietary Oligofructose or Inulin by Taper, Henryk S., Roberfroid, Marcel B.

“…Our previously published results indicated that dietary treatment with oligofructose or inulin inhibited malignant tumor growth in experimental animals. Thus…”
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