Article: Reports by A. Lopezrubio and co-researchers describe recent advances in spectroscopy.

"Resistant starch (RS) is defined as the fraction of starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine, serving as a fermentation substrate for beneficial colonic bacteria. Several studies have been focused on the description of the RS fractions from different starch varieties, but little attention has been paid to the digestion process itself that, from the present work, seems to play a key role in the generation of enzyme-RS (ERS), as determined in vitro," scientists writing in the journal Biomacromolecules report (see also Spectroscopy).

"High-amylose starch samples, extruded at two different processing conditions, have been characterized at different stages ...

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