Possible Interaction: Glucose and Pectin

“Gastric emptying was prolonged, and serum insulin levels were lower, after glucose with pectin.”

“Plasma volume changes were significantly less after glucose with pectin , and the hypoglycaemia at 120 min after glucose alone did not occur after glucose with pectin in patients in whom symptoms were abolished.”

“ Pectin is known to delay gastric emptying and alleviate dumping symptoms when ingested with hyperosmolar, glucose-containing meals.”

“The addition of pectin or guar gum to the glucose meal largely prevented postprandial symptoms and breath hydrogen excretion.”

“After pectin , the high postprandial levels of glucose , insulin, and enteroglucagon were significantly reduced as was the fall in blood glucose between 90 and 120 minutes.”

“These effects of pectin may reflect slower uptake of glucose from the gastrointestinal tract and provide evidence to support the use of unabsorbable carbohydrate gelling agents in treating hypoglycaemia after gastric surgery.”

“High-methoxyl pectins had greater inhibitive effect on intestinal absorption of glucose than low-methoxyl pectins.”

“Chronic supplementation with cellulose or pectin impaired intestinal glucose absorption and decreased serum glucose responses.”

“Inulin and pectin improved cell DPPH scavenging activity, and an impressive hydrophobicity (35.28% and 34.81%, respectively) was observed with respect to the microbial growth in presence of glucose (3.39%).”

“The enzymes pectin methylesterase and polygalacturonate hydrolase, which are responsible for the initial steps of pectin degradation by Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum, were shown to be induced on the polymeric substrates pectin and pectate, as well as on oligogalacturonates, and to be repressed in the presence of glucose.”

“It was also thought that possibly a relation might exist between the digestion of pectin and the methylated glucoses.”