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Appl Environ Microbiol. 1992 October; 58(10): 3330-3336

Determination of fermentable carbohydrate from the upper gastrointestinal tract by using colectomized rats.

Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.

ABSTRACT

The primary aim of this study was to characterize the carbohydrate that would be supplied to the colon for fermentation under physiological conditions. Colectomized rats were fed fiber-free diets or diets containing 5% (wt/wt) gum arabic. Four (fucose, galactose, glucosamine, and galactosamine) of 11 analyzed sugars accounted for 77% of the total sugar in ileal excreta from colectomized rats fed fiber-free diets. The three sugars in gum arabic, rhamnose, arabinose, and galactose, accounted for 84% of the total sugars in gum arabic ileal excreta. Comparisons of the sugar compositions of the ileal excreta, the water-soluble fractions of the excreta, and three gel filtration fractions of the water-soluble material with those of the water-soluble fraction of rat mucosa, the acetone-soluble fraction of pancreas, and pancreatin suggested that the major source of endogenous carbohydrate is mucin. Gum arabic increased the daily excretion of the four mucin-derived sugars (fucose, galactose, glucosamine, and galactosamine) by the colectomized rats from 473 mumol per day to 634 mumol per day. We conclude that mucin is the major endogenous carbohydrate excreted from the upper gut and that gum arabic increases the amount of this endogenous carbohydrate.

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