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Effects of GI and content of indigestible carbohydrates of cereal-based evening meals on glucose tolerance at a subsequent standardised breakfast

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Summary, in English

Objective: To evaluate the impact of four low-glycaemic index (GI) and one high-GI cereal-based evening meals on glucose tolerance at a subsequent standardised breakfast. Design: Wheat kernels, barley kernels, spaghetti, spaghetti with added wheat bran and white wheat bread (WWB) were consumed in the evening in a random order at five different occasions. At the subsequent breakfast, blood glucose, serum insulin, plasma short chain fatty acid, plasma free fatty acid (FFA) and breath hydrogen were measured. Setting: The study was performed at Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden. Subjects: Fifteen healthy volunteers were recruited. One subject was later excluded owing to abnormal blood glucose values. Results: The blood glucose response (0-120 min) to the standardised breakfast was significantly lower after consuming barley kernels in the evening compared with evening meals with WWB (P = 0.019) or spaghetti+wheat bran (P = 0.046). There were no significant differences in insulin concentrations at breakfast. Breath hydrogen excretion at breakfast was significantly higher after an evening meal with barley kernels compared with WWB, wheat kernels or spaghetti (P = 0.026, 0.026 and 0.015, respectively), and the concentration of plasma propionate at breakfast was significantly higher following an evening meal with barley kernels compared with an evening meal with WWB (P = 0.041). In parallel, FFA concentrations were significantly lower after barley kernels compared with WWB (P = 0.042) or spaghetti evening meals (P = 0.019). Conclusions: The improved glucose tolerance at breakfast, following an evening meal with barley kernels appeared to emanate from suppression of FFA levels, mediated by colonic fermentation of the specific indigestible carbohydrates present in this product, or, to the combination of the low-GI features and colonic fermentation.

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

1092-1099

Publication/Series

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volume

60

Issue

9

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Nature Publishing Group

Topic

  • Nutrition and Dietetics

Keywords

  • fermentation
  • colonic
  • indigestible carbohydrates
  • SCFA
  • glycaemic index
  • glucose tolerance
  • second-meal effect

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1476-5640