Recent Advances in Dietary Polysaccharides for Human Health and Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbohydrates".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 843
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical structure and biological functions of food polysaccharides; fungal and plant non-starch polysaccharides; gut health and prebiotics; dietary fiber and human health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The intake of food carbohydrates, particularly complex ones such as starch and non-starch polysaccharides, is a significant component of the human diet. Recent research in food and nutritional sciences has provided a more in-depth understanding of why and how dietary polysaccharides impact human health and diseases beyond their conventional nutritional roles. Due to their diverse chemical structure and physical characteristics, dietary polysaccharides (both native and modified ones), exhibit multifunctional properties in the direct and indirect prevention and treatment of various human health problems such as metabolic diseases and cancer. Some dietary polysaccharides also possess prebiotic properties, potentially improving gut microbiome composition and function.
This Special Issue will focus on recent advances in investigating dietary polysaccharides including, but not limited to, both starch and non-starch polysaccharides (dietary fiber) on human health and diseases. It aims to particularly emphasize the mechanistic correlation of the chemical structure and biological/physiological functions of dietary polysaccharides and their application in our diet as a functional food ingredient.
This Special Issue of Nutrients, “Recent Advances in Dietary Polysaccharides for Human Health and Diseases”, welcomes original research and reviews of the literature pertaining to this important topic.
Prof. Dr. Peter Chi Keung Cheung
Guest Editor
Dr. Nelson Kei
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- bioactive carbohydrates
- dietary fiber
- non-starch polysaccharides
- prebiotic polysaccharides
- resistant starch
- starch
- chronic diseases
- gut health
- gut microbiome
- physiological functions
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