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Beta-glucan is a polymer composed of 1,3-Beta- and 1,6-Beta-linkages between glucose units. The insoluble polymer is restricted to few food sources such as fungi and some Yeasts
Ahmad & Khalid 2018 In Grumezescu AM, Holban AM (ed), Biopolymers for food design p 125-156 Elsevier Inc., San Diego, CA

It is not as common in dietary patterns as the other fibers. The high-specificity insoluble 1,3-beta-glucan promoted a large increase of the target bacteria (from 0.3 to 16.5% average for Anaerostipes sp. and 2.5 to 17.9% average for Bacteroides uniformis ), which were associated with increase…