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Enzymo-chemical preparation, physico-chemical characterization and hypolipidemic activity of granular corn bran dietary fibre

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Corn bran dietary fibre (CF) was paid more attention for its anticancer and hypolipidemic activities. In this paper, corn bran was firstly decomposed to the threadlike fibre (CF1) by multiple enzymes and then further modified to the granular fibre (CF2) by alkali under high pressure and high temperature (APT). The two types of fibres were characterized by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and near-infrared spectrophotometer (IR), and investigated by hydration measurements and nitrite adsorption assays. The results showed that CF2 had more much specific surface area, and displayed 4.7, 6.3 and 30-fold increases in water retention (WR), swelling capacity (SC) and nitrite absorption (NA), compared with CF1, respectively. The rat feeding trials showed that the granular fibre could decrease total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG) and low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDLC) by 41.4 %, 20.7 % and 56.5 %, respectively. These excellent physiological activities indicate that CF2 will be a potentially available dietary ingredient in functional food industries, and meanwile imply that the enzymochemical method is a desired strategy for CF processing.

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This work was supported by the Natural Science Fund Program of P.R. China (No. 30870251 and 31070309), Jilin Province Science and Technology Institute of China (20070203) and Project 985 of Jilin University.

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    Yan Wang, Yu-Lin Zhou, Ying-Kun Cheng, Zhen-Yan Jiang, Ye Jin, Han-Si Zhang, Da Liu, Li-Rong Teng & Gui-Rong Zhang

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Wang, Y., Zhou, YL., Cheng, YK. et al. Enzymo-chemical preparation, physico-chemical characterization and hypolipidemic activity of granular corn bran dietary fibre. J Food Sci Technol 52, 1718–1723 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13197-013-1140-6

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