Following reports that its fiber-rich wheat ingredient has performed well in its first year in US retail stores, Arista Cereal Technologies (Arista) and Limagrain are marketing a new wheat ingredient in Europe. Largely lacking in Western diets, resistant starch is a fermentable fiber that is more resistant to digestion in the small intestine, reducing the […]
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Modifying gut microbiome may eventually prevent asthma in infant boys
The family risk for asthma – typically passed from mothers to babies – may involve the microbes found in a baby’s digestive tract. This is according to a new University of Alberta study, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and AllerGen and published in the European Respiratory Journal. Maintaining a healthy gut […]