PRESS RELEASE: Programme topics at the 6th International Dietary Fibre Conference (DF15), Paris, France, 1-3 June 2015
We are happy to announce the programme topics at the 6th International Dietary Fibre Conference (DF15), Paris, France, 1-3 June 2015:
1. Session - Consumer acceptance
- Innovation and value-chains for grains and fibre (global market-forces etc.)
- Consumers' acceptance and willingness-to-pay
2. Session - Consumer health
- Fibre and chronic disease and immune regulation
- Fibre and intestinal functions
- Colonic microbiota and microbial metabolism
- Caloric value of fibres, glycaemic index, satiety, weight management and obesity
- Application and benefit of fibre to neurocognitive and brain health
- Fibre co-passengers and derived molecules
3. Session - Dietary fibre in food and new ingredients
- New trends in dietary fibre innovation
- Physical structure/properties and composition of dietary fibre preparations
- Resistant starch
- Liquid, solid and semisolid food applications
- The role of fibre in reducing fat and sugar levels in products
- Alternative sources of dietary fibre and novel dietary fibres and fermentable substrates
- Standard and innovative food processing effects on the functionality of dietary fibres and the effects of these modified fibres on health
- Advances in generating fractions and dietary preparations with specific tissues and/or dietary fibre constituents
4. Session - Classification, analysis and regulatory issues
- Fibre identification, classification and analysis: analytical method overview
- Fibre regulatory aspects, government policies, directives and regulations around the world
- Fibre and labelling of nutrients
- In vitro and in vivo issues
- Fibre and health claims and the future for new claims of dietary fibre
- Fibre and food composition databases
5. Session - New criteria to classify dietary fibre
- Dietary fibre mix adapted to each physiological situation, from the new-born to the elderly, from the healthy subject to the patient
- Different fibre properties for different products
- Books of knowledge, decision tool
For more details, please see df2015.icc.or.at/programme.
To submit your abstract please go to df2015.icc.or.at/abstract_submission and follow the guidelines. The submission deadlines are 31 January 2015 for oral and 28 February 2015 for poster presentations.
Last updated on 28 April 2015 12:17 UTC