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Understanding how foods are broken down during human digestion is an important research topic with strong relevance for food design. Digestion of foods releases components (peptides/amino acids, minerals, fatty acids, simple sugars...) that, beside their nutritional properties, can have a biological action.
One of the main goals of the COST action INFOGEST is to develop new tools to improve current scientific knowledge on the digestive process of foods. This knowledge will be used to design foods with a better bioactivity.
The INFOGEST network has developed an open international research network which gathers scientists from different disciplines (food scientists, gut physiologists) and aims at fostering multidisciplinary fundamental research on food digestion. To achieve this, INFOGEST has harmonized a static in vitro digestion method based on available physiological data, with the aim of improving the comparability of experimental results.
Several milk protein matrices have been digested according to the INFOGEST harmonized static digestion protocol. The results show that whey proteins, such as b-lactoglobulin, are resistant to gastric digestion. In addition, the peptide bands obtained by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and size exclusion chromatography after the intestinal digestion of the milk matrices indicate an autolysis in the intestine.