Chicory Fructans in Nutrition and the Formulation of Foods Dedicated to Blood Glucose Disorder Management

Fructans were rst described in 1804 by Rose, a German scientist, who found a “peculiar” substance of plant origin in a boiling water extract from Inula helenium. Chemically, fructans are dened as any compound in which one or more fructosyl-fructose linkages constitute a majority of the linkages. e material included in this denition may or may not contain attached glucose (Lewis 1993).