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Next Instruments NutraScan - Artificial Gut for Digestive Simulation
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The NutraScan Artificial Gut is an advanced system developed to simulate the digestive process in both humans and animals. It replicates the enzymatic digestion of food by using a series of incubations at physiological pH and temperature that mimic various stages of digestion, including buccal, gastric, and pancreatic phases. This system sequentially hydrolyzes proteins, fats, and starches using hydrolytic enzymes similar to those found in the mouth, stomach, and small intestine. NutraScan provides valuable insights into the digestive mechanisms and nutrient bioavailability, making it a crucial tool for researchers and scientists studying gastrointestinal processes and food digestion. The system is valuable for applications such as analyzing the digestion of different food types, like breakfast cereals and rice, offering important data for nutritional science and food technology industries.Most popular related searches
The NutraScan Artificial Gut has been developed in order to study how the human and animal body digest foods. NutraScan simulates the enzymatic digestion of food under a series of incubations, at physiological pH and temperature that essentially mimics the buccal, gastric and pancreatic phases of food digestion. Protein, fat and starch are sequentially hydrolysed using a combination of hydrolytic enzymes as are found in the mouth, stomach and small intestines.