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Digestion: The Fate of Food


Bacterial Digestion: Contents Page

Energy

Food for gut bacteria - introduction (To Be Added)

Carbohydrates (To Be Added)

Amino acids (To Be Added)

Human Digestion: Contents Page

Fate of Food: Introduction

Carbohydrates

Fate of Food: Carbohydrates

The fate of digestible carbohydrates

Fuel for the cells

Digestive process

Small intestine

Carbohydrate absorption

Digestible and resistant starches

Introduction

Amylose and amylopectin

Resistant starches

Physically inaccessible starches (RS1)

Resistant granules (RS2)

Retrograded starch (RS3)

Chemically modified starch (RS4)

Undigested carbohydrates

Undigestible carbohydrates

Introduction

Dietary fibre

Foods with fibre

Fate of fibre

Soluble fibre

Physically inaccessible starches (RS1)

Resistant granules (RS2)

Retrograded starch (RS3)

Chemically modified starch (RS4)

Insoluble fibre

Mono- and disaccharides, small oligosaccharides and polyols

Disaccharides - undigestible

Disaccharides - partially digestible

Trisaccharides and small oligosaccharides

Polyols - partially digestible / absorbed

Monosaccharides

Fate of Food: Protein

Introduction

Tables

➙ Amino acid intestinal brush border transporters

➙ Amino acid digestion

➙ 20 Normal amino acids

➙ Unusual amino acids

Fate of Food: Fats

Introduction

➙ Process of fat digestion

➙ Bile and its impact on the gut microbiome

Fate of Food: Other (To Be Added)

Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO)

Introduction

HMO Structural guide

Tables

Di- & Trisaccharides

Tetraose & Tetrasaccharides

Pentaose

Hexaose

Octaose

Decaose

Miscellaneous

Additional Tables: Compounds digested by humans and bacteria

Carbohydrate digestion

➙ Polysaccharides

➙ Di- and tri-saccharides

➙ Reducing monosaccharides

➙ Sugar alcohols

Miscellaneous carbohydrates

Amino acid digestion

20 Normal amino acids

Unusual amino acids

Short-chain fatty acid digestion

Aromatic acid digestion

Polyacid substrate digestion

Hydroxyacid substrate digestion

Nitrogen-containing compound digestion

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