Cynthia Klostermann, employed within the CarboBiotics program, defended her thesis on June 21st in Wageningen. Cynthia collaborated closely with her colleague Luis Silva Lagos (UMCG) and focused on development of tailor-made resistant starch type 3 (RS-3), to be used as a dietary fiber. We are now a step closer to understanding how to develop RS-3 that resists digestion in the small intestine (link to paper: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2021.118069), while simultaneously being fermentable by gut microbiota. Specific physico-chemical characteristics of RS-3 caused high resistance to digestion (80-95 % expected to reach the colon). These RS-3 structures were fermentable by mixed microbial populations obtained from adult feces, whereas these RS-3 structures were hardly fermentable by populations obtained from piglet and infant feces. The PhD thesis can be found following the link: potential of tailor-made resistant starch type 3 as a health-beneficial ingredient for the gut | PhD Theses (wur.nl))
