Starch digestion: understanding and potential for improvement-introduction

Theurer, C.B.

Journal of Nutrition 122(1): 170-171

1992


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-3166
PMID: 1729467
Document Number: 396537
This paper was presented at a symposium on starch digestion. Starch digestion and absorption in nonruminants and the relations between starch chemistry and structure within cereal grain seeds and starch hydrolysis by ruminal microflora are reviewed. Detailed information is given on alpha -amylase action, membrane surface digestion of oligosaccharides and transport of glucose by the enterocyte.

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