In vitro digestibility of goat milk and kefir with a new standardised static digestion method (INFOGEST cost action) and bioactivities of the resultant peptides

Food Funct. 2015 Jul;6(7):2322-30. doi: 10.1039/c5fo00357a.

Abstract

The hydrolysis degrees of goat milk and kefir during simulated gastrointestinal digestion and some bioactivities of the resulting peptides after fermentation and digestion were studied. A static in vitro digestion method by the COST FA1005 Action INFOGEST was used and goat milk and kefir were partially hydrolyzed during the gastric phase and had above 80% hydrolysis after duodenal digestion. There were no differences between the digestibility of goat milk and kefir (p > 0.05). Goat milk and kefir displayed about 7-fold antioxidant activity after digestion (p < 0.05). Fermentation showed no effect on the calcium-binding capacity of the samples (p > 0.05), however, after in vitro digestion calcium-binding capacity of the goat milk and kefir increased 2 and 5 fold, respectively (p < 0.05). Digested goat milk and kefir showed a higher dose-dependent inhibitory effect on α-amylase compared to undigested samples (p < 0.05). α-Glucosidase inhibitory activities and in vitro bile acid-binding capacities of the samples were not determined at the studied concentrations.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cultured Milk Products / chemistry
  • Cultured Milk Products / metabolism*
  • Cultured Milk Products / microbiology
  • Digestion*
  • Fermentation
  • Gastrointestinal Tract / metabolism*
  • Goats
  • Humans
  • Hydrolysis
  • Lactobacillales / metabolism*
  • Milk / chemistry
  • Milk / metabolism
  • Milk / microbiology
  • Models, Biological
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Peptides / metabolism*
  • alpha-Amylases / antagonists & inhibitors
  • alpha-Amylases / metabolism
  • alpha-Glucosidases / metabolism

Substances

  • Peptides
  • alpha-Amylases
  • alpha-Glucosidases