Effects of a brown beans evening meal on metabolic risk markers and appetite regulating hormones at a subsequent standardized breakfast: a randomized cross-over study.

Summary, in English

Dietary prevention strategies are increasingly recognized as essential to combat the current epidemic of obesity and related metabolic disorders. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the potential prebiotic effects of indigestible carbohydrates in Swedish brown beans (Phaseolus vulgaris var. nanus) in relation to cardiometabolic risk markers and appetite regulating hormones.

• Author: Anne Nilsson; Elin Johansson; Linda Ekström; Inger Björck
• Department/s: Division of Food and Pharma
• Publishing year: 2013
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: PLoS ONE
• Volume: 8
• Issue: 4
• Links: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059985
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Topic: Nutrition and Dietetics
• Status: Published
• Project: ANTIDIABETIC FOOD CENTRE
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1932-6203