Journal
FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
Volume 138, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109818
Keywords
Steaming; Microwave processing; Oat beta-glucan; In vitro fermentation; Microbiota; Short-chain fatty acid
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31671856]
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This study aimed to compare the prebiotic effects of oat beta-glucan between steaming and microwave processing by high-throughput sequencing. The results showed that microwave-processed oat beta-glucan with lower average molecular weight (M-w) exhibited a more significant effect in promoting Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium compared with steaming processed oat beta-glucan with higher M-w at the genus level. The overall microbial composition structure results indicated that the relative abundance of Escherichia-Shigella, Lactobacillus, Enterococcus, and Dialister exhibited significant differences between the samples (p < 0.05). Additionally, the shortchain fatty acid in microwave-processed oat beta-glucan fermentation slurries significantly increased (p < 0.05), and more butyrate was produced from microwave-processed oat beta-glucan, which may be attributed to the higher levels of Blautia and Dialister as butyrate-producers. These results suggest that microwave processing contributed to the degradation of oat beta-glucan and enhanced its prebiotic function.
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