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Cereal Nutrition and Metabolic Regulation

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Carbohydrates".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 October 2024) | Viewed by 3622

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State Key Laboratory of Food Science and Technology, School of Food Science and Technology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
Interests: nutrition; food science; cereal; metabolism; metabolic homeostasis; obesity
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Dear Colleagues,

Cereal grains, a staple food for a substantial global population, offer a diverse range of bioactive and nutritional compounds, including dietary fiber, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, lignans, phytosterols, and phenolics. Extensive animal and human studies have consistently underscored the potential health benefits associated with the consumption of whole-grain cereals and their functional components, demonstrating a positive impact on reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, cancer, and other chronic conditions. This Special Issue aims to emphasize topics that include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

  1. Studies that focus on the digestion, absorption, and transport mechanisms of cereal and its functional components.
  2. The metabolic regulation of cereal and its functional components on the liver, heart, muscle, brain, gut, and other important tissues.
  3. The synergistic effects between different functional components of cereal in metabolic regulation.
  4. New insights into cereal and its functional components in the metabolic regulation of interorganizational communication.

Dr. Yan Li
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • cereal
  • cereal grains
  • functional components
  • fiber
  • protein
  • carbohydrates
  • metabolic regulation
  • chronic disease

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Maternal Dietary Carbohydrate and Pregnancy Outcomes: Quality over Quantity
by Lamei Xue, Xiaofang Chen, Juan Sun, Mingcong Fan, Haifeng Qian, Yan Li and Li Wang
Nutrients 2024, 16(14), 2269; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142269 - 14 Jul 2024
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Dietary nutrition plays a crucial role in determining pregnancy outcomes, with poor diet being a major contributor to pregnancy metabolic syndrome and metabolic disorders in offspring. While carbohydrates are essential for fetal development, the excessive consumption of low-quality carbohydrates can increase the risk [...] Read more.
Dietary nutrition plays a crucial role in determining pregnancy outcomes, with poor diet being a major contributor to pregnancy metabolic syndrome and metabolic disorders in offspring. While carbohydrates are essential for fetal development, the excessive consumption of low-quality carbohydrates can increase the risk of pregnancy complications and have lasting negative effects on offspring development. Recent studies not only highlighted the link between carbohydrate intake during pregnancy, maternal health, and offspring well-being, but also suggested that the quality of carbohydrate foods consumed is more critical. This article reviews the impacts of low-carbohydrate and high-carbohydrate diets on pregnancy complications and offspring health, introduces the varied physiological effects of different types of carbohydrate consumption during pregnancy, and emphasizes the importance of both the quantity and quality of carbohydrates in nutritional interventions during pregnancy. These findings may offer valuable insights for guiding dietary interventions during pregnancy and shaping the future development of carbohydrate-rich foods. Full article
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