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JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE
Volume 73, Issue 5, Pages R67-R80Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2008.00766.x
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controlled release; digestion; food disintegration; gastric emptying; stomach
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Knowledge of the disintegration of solid foods in human stomach is essential to assess the bioavailability of nutrients In the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. A comprehensive review of food gastric digestion, focus disintegration of solid foods, is presented. Most of the research reviewed in this paper is contained in the medical, pharmaceutical, food, and nutritional literature. Stomach physiology is briefly introduced, including composition and theological properties of gastric contents. stomachwall motility in fed/fasted states, and hydrodynamic and mechanical forces that act on the ingested food. in vivo and in vitro methods used for studying food and drug digestion in GI are summarized. Stomach emptying rate, which controls the rate of absorption of nutrients, Is highly related to the disintegration of foods. This topic is highlighted with focus on the important mechanisms and the influence of chemical and physical properties of foods. Future research In this area is Identified to increase our fundamental understanding of the food digestion process in the stomach as related to the food composition, material proper ties such as texture and microstructure, and chemical characteristics. This information is necessary to develop new guidelines for seeking innovative processing methods to manufacture foods specifically targeted for health.
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