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    Inulins are a group of naturally occurring polysaccharides produced by many types of plants, industrially most often extracted from chicory. The inulins...
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    plant components such as cellulose, resistant starch, resistant dextrins, inulin, lignins, chitins, pectins, beta-glucans, and oligosaccharides. Food sources...
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    carbohydrate inulin (8 to 13%), which is a polymer of the monosaccharide fructose. Tubers stored for any length of time convert their inulin into its component...
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    and used as a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in food manufacturing as a...
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    GFR can be determined by injecting inulin or the inulin-analog sinistrin into the blood stream. Since both inulin and sinistrin are neither reabsorbed...
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  • include beta-glucan from oats, resistant starch from grains and beans, and inulin from chicory root. The definition of prebiotics and the food ingredients...
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    produced commercially, based on inulin degradation or transfructosylation processes. FOS can be produced by degradation of inulin, or polyfructose, a polymer...
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    fructans such as inulin, which as polysaccharides have a much higher degree of polymerization than FOS and other oligosaccharides, but like inulin and other...
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    or OH-6), and there are two basic types of simple fructan: 1-linked: in inulin, the fructosyl residues are linked by β-2,1-linkages 6-linked: in levan...
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    kidney dysfunction. (In the absence of secretion, creatinine behaves like inulin). An alternative estimation of kidney function can be made when interpreting...
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