Biotechnological addition of β-Glucans from cereals, mushrooms and yeasts in foods and animal feed

• Main Authors: Chiozzi, Viola, Eliopoulos, Christos, Markou, Giorgos, Arapoglou, Dimitrios, Agriopoulou, Sofia, El Enshasy, Hesham Ali, Varzakas, Theodoros
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2021
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94417/1/HeshamAli2021_BiotechnologicalAdditionof%C3%9F-GlucansfromCereals.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/94417/; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr9111889
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Varied cereal plants including, mushrooms, yeast, bacteria and algae are important sources of β-glucans, and many extraction procedures have been used in order to recover these valuable naturally occurring polysaccharides. The rheological and molecular properties of β-glucans can be utilized to be i...