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 6^th 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.