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- noun Plural form of
oligosaccharide .
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Invented in 1957 by Richard Marshall and Earl Kooi, the chemically altered corn product is produced by milling corn to create starch; treating this starch with alpha-amylase to produce short chains of sugars, called oligosaccharides; treating these oligosaccharides with glucoamylase, a fungus further breaking down the sugar chains to yield simple sugar glucose; then adding an enzyme, xylose isomerase, converting this glucose into fructose.
Iowa State Daily 2010
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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Could the oligosaccharides in milk prevent diarrhea?
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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Brad seems to tacitly call for a Pigovian tax against triglycerides and oligosaccharides.
Brad DeLong on Health Care, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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Could the oligosaccharides in milk prevent diarrhea?
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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I wonder if throwing some pineapple rinds in with unheated water when soaking beans overnight might have some success in helping to reduce the undigestible oligosaccharides, or if there are some other casera means of reducing gas production from beans.
Musical fruit 2009
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