Component
Human post-meal glucose profile
Human post-meal glucose profile. Species, exposure and limitations are retained in each linked claim.
1 recorded relationships. Experimental role, claim status and evidence remain attached to each record.
How nutrients influence it
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Other things that act on it
Enzymes, hormones, genes, and other components with a recorded effect. These are not nutrients, so they do not count toward the arrows above. Each finding names the chapter that recorded it.
How nutrients reach it in more than one step
Chains of two or more recorded steps that end here, grouped by the nutrient they start from. Each step is a separate finding, so a chain is a route a mechanism could take, not proof that it does.
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What it does
Every recorded relationship this component is part of, grouped by its role. Plain wording comes first; the technical statement follows.
What acts on it
Despite slower estimated emptying, the post-meal glucose profile was not significantly changed.
Experimental context and source evidence
- evidence_span
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- experimental_model
- Three-meal comparison in ten healthy men
- exposure
- 450-kcal, 500-mL meal with 5.2 g pectin, agar, or control; 13C-acetate breath test
- limitations
- A gastric-emptying breath-test estimate is not direct proof of a specific glucose-enzyme inhibition.
- nutrient_topic
- Pectin research collection; topical membership is not evidence of a direct dietary effect. · Pectin, structurally heterogeneous plant polysaccharides
- organism
- Homo sapiens
- plain_language
- A slower stomach did not automatically produce a lower glucose response.
- primary_references
- [pectin-p17880369] Effects of agar and pectin on gastric emptying and post-prandial glycaemic profiles in healthy human volunteers. (2007). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17880369/ DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2007.04706.x
- tissue_or_cell_type
- Gastric emptying and post-meal glucose
Pectin: metabolism, signaling and nutrient connections (2026-09-17) · lines 815–826
AI-assisted literature curation; primary study URLs and scope retained in the document and extraction. Not publisher full text. · supports · Three-meal comparison in ten healthy men · source_derived_draft · unverified_draft
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The events it takes part in
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Situations it appears in
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In the sources
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Open hypotheses
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