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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 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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Functional food concept and its application to prebiotics by Roberfroid, M.

“…A food can be regarded as functional if it is satisfactorily demonstrated to affect beneficially one or more target functions in the body, beyond adequate…”
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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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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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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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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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Functional food science and gastrointestinal physiology and function by Salminen, S., Bouley, C., Boutron, M.-C., Cummings, J. H., Franck, A., Gibson, G. R., Isolauri, E., Moreau, M.-C., Roberfroid, M., Rowland, I.

“…The gut is an obvious target for the development of functional foods, acting as it does as the interface between diet and the metabolic events which sustain…”
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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 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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Inulin and Oligofructose as Dietary Fiber: A Review of the Evidence by Flamm, Gary, Glinsmann, Walter, Kritchevsky, David, Prosky, Leon, Roberfroid, Marcel

“…The authors express their appreciation to Dr. Barbara Schneeman, University of California, for her review of this manuscript and the opportunity for discussion…”
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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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Dietary fiber, inulin, and oligofructose: a review comparing their physiological effects by Roberfroid, M

“…Dietary fiber is a general term. It covers a wide variety of substances that belong to the family of carbohydrates that resist hydrolysis by human alimentary…”
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Functional food science and defence against reactive oxidative species by Diplock, A. T., Charuleux, J.-L., Crozier-Willi, G., Kok, F. J., Rice-Evans, C., Roberfroid, M., Stahl, W., Viña-Ribes, J.

“…This paper assesses critically the science base that underpins the argument that oxidative damage is a significant causative factor in the development of human…”
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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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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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Involvement of lipogenesis in the lower VLDL secretion induced by oligofructose in rats by Kok, N., Roberfroid, M., Robert, A., Delzenne, N.

“…Dietary supplementation with oligofructose (OFS; 100 g/kg), a non-digestibleoligomer of β-D-fructose, decreases serum triacylglycerols in serum and VLDL of…”
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Histamine dilutions modulate basophil activation by Belon, P, Cumps, J, Ennis, M, Mannaioni, P F, Roberfroid, M, Sainte-Laudy, J, Wiegant, F A C

“…In order to demonstrate that high dilutions of histamine are able to inhibit basophil activation in a reproducible fashion, several techniques were used in…”
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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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