Australian Trial Examines Impact of HAMSAB (Resistant Starch-based) Prebiotic and Patients with High Blood Pressure

According to an Australian study published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, researchers examined the effect of 40 grams of a resistant starch called HAMSAB ( prebiotic acetylated and butyrylated high-amylose maize starch) versus a placebo on 20…

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Lemon Pectins Shown to Modulate Structure and Function of Gut Microbiota

Researchers from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the US Department of Agriculture investigated the effect of two different molecular weight (MW) lemon pectins with varying degrees of esterification (DE) on the gut microbiota of two donors…

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