New trends and technological challenges in the industrial production and purification of fructo-oligosaccharides

An increased commercial interest in fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) has emerged in the last decade due to their prebiotic activity. At large scale, the FOS are produced by microbial enzymes from sucrose. A mixture of FOS and other saccharides is obtained in this process. The presence of such saccharid...

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Main Author: Nobre, Clarisse (author)
Other Authors: Teixeira, J. A. (author), Rodrigues, L. R. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/35321
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/35321