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β-glucan from brewers spent yeast as a techno-functional food ingredient
| Resumo: | Brewer’s spent yeast (BSY) is a by-product generated during beer production. After heat inactivation, large quantities of BSY are discarded or sold as a low-cost animal feed supplement. Fortunately, BSY can be a good source of valuable compounds such as β-glucan, which has several biological and techno-functional properties for application as a food ingredient. Practical application of β-glucan from BSY requires disruption cell wall and purification steps that significantly influences the yield, cost, biological, physic-chemical, and technological characteristics of this compound. This mini-review presents the use of BSY as a source of β-glucan, the available methods to extract it, and its biological and techno-functional properties. |
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| Autores principais: | Gautério, Gabrielle |
| Outros Autores: | Silvério, Sara Isabel Cruz; Egea, Mariana Buranelo; Lemes, A. |
| Assunto: | polysaccharide yeast cell wall disruption methods biological properties technological properties |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | Brewer’s spent yeast (BSY) is a by-product generated during beer production. After heat inactivation, large quantities of BSY are discarded or sold as a low-cost animal feed supplement. Fortunately, BSY can be a good source of valuable compounds such as β-glucan, which has several biological and techno-functional properties for application as a food ingredient. Practical application of β-glucan from BSY requires disruption cell wall and purification steps that significantly influences the yield, cost, biological, physic-chemical, and technological characteristics of this compound. This mini-review presents the use of BSY as a source of β-glucan, the available methods to extract it, and its biological and techno-functional properties. |
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