Session 7: Room 281

Sunday AM

Resistant starch: A food ingredient with significant physiological and health benefits

Sponsor:Carbohydrate Division
Cosponsor(s):Nutrition Division
Moderator(s):G. A. Crosby, Opta Food Ingredients, Inc.
C. M. Kapica, The Quaker Oats Co.
Time: 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Introductory Remarks
9:05 AM7-1Resistant starch, background and emerging issues
A. STEPHEN
9:35 AM7-2Starch fractions in foods and in chemically modified starches: Concentrations and intestinal digestibility
G. C. FAHEY, JR., E. A. Flickinger, B. W. Wolf
10:05 AM7-3Effects of resistant starch on colonic function: Potential health benefits
I. ROWLAND
10:35 AM7-4The role of human gut microflora in health and nurition
G. R. GIBSON
11:05 AM7-5The intestinal immune system as influenced by fermentation and the gut's miscoflora
D. T. GORDON

2001 IFT Annual Meeting - New Orleans, Louisiana