Journal
JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
Volume 82, Issue 8, Pages 781-789Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.1095
Keywords
cereal; dietary fibre; beta-glucan; xylan; arabinoxylan; xylo-oligosaccharides; fermentation; probiotic; prebiotic; synbiotic; intestine
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A range of probiotic and other intestinal bacteria were examined for their ability to ferment the dietary fibre carbohydrates beta-glucan, xylan, xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) and arabinoxylan. beta-Glucan was fermented by Bacteroides spp and Clostridium beijerinckii but was not fermented by lactobacilli, bifidobacteria, enterococci or Escherichia coli. Unsubstituted xylan was not fermented by any of the probiotic bacteria examined. However, many Bifidobacterium species and Lactobacillus brevis were able to grow to high yields using XOS. XOS were also efficiently fermented by some Bacteroides isolates but not by E coli, enterococci, Clostridium difficile, Clostridium perfringens or by the majority of intestinal Lactobacillus species examined. Bifidobacteriurn longum strains were able to grow well using arabinoxylan as the sole carbon source. These organisms hydrolysed and fermented the arabinosyl residues from arabinoxylan but did not substantially utilise the xylan backbone of the polysaccharide. Arabinoxylan was not fermented by lactobacilli, enterococci, E coli, C perfringens or C difficile and has potential to be an applicable carbohydrate to complement probiotic Bif longum strains in synbiotic combinations. (C) 2002 Society of Chemical Industry.
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