229 pages.

Book of Abstracts from the 4^th International Dietary Fibre Conference, Vienna, Austria, 1-3 July 2009.

Topics:

Nutrition and health

• Prebiotics - new trends and developments
• Dietary fibre, obesity and appetite control
• Fibres - relationships health effects - type and structure of fibre
• Glycemic control, impact of high- and low viscous fibres Definition, analysis, and consumer communication

Definition, analysis, and consumer communication

• Definition - implementation of new codex-based definitions
• Analytical tools, development and validation
• Legislation, labelling and consumer communication

Structure/Function relationships - the performance of different types of DF

• Optimising nutritional and technology performance
• Roles of dietary fibres in reducing sugar- and fat levels
• Dietary fibre in matrices - health impact of fibres and co-passengers