Report Summary
This report provides summaries of current worldwide research, technology developments in carbohydrates for health, nutrition and functional areas that are essential part of food systems to offer many benefits to offer solutions in health benefits and functional attributes. This report offers a tool and resource that can enhance the reading, thought process along with our insights for today’s overloaded technical, commercial and support management functions. This is our 3rd report in the Frontiers in Carbohydrates and we plan to issue series of similar reports each year to proactively offer areas of targeted research in selected areas; we may evolve this document as we move forward depending on your feedback and serve the changing needs of carbohydrates. This presents our extensive research with comprehensive experience and insights of our associates and me who have spent many years in the carbohydrates research, processing and marketing. Besides we stay on the cutting edge by our continuous scan of carbohydrates research and developments worldwide. The report is focussed in the following crirtial health, nutrition and functional areas of key carbohydrates: Functional cereals and ancient grains
- Dietary fibers – insoluble and soluble
- Resistant starches and slowly digestible starches
- Non digestible and slowly digestible oligosaccharides
- Chitosan
- Carbohydrates and food textures
In this report we present the most recent activities in research and technologies of critical nutrition and functional carbohydrates of selected areas along with selected patents 2003 to 2010. We also present brief analysis of patent trends, which has most number of patents, what years and segments