Ana Gabriela Flores-Rueda¹, Talita Slapak-Franco², Rosa María Jiménez-Amezcua¹, Dalia Samanta Aguilar-Ávila¹, Alma Hortensia Martínez-Preciado¹, Edgar Benjamín Figueroa-Ochoa¹, Rocío Ivette López-Roa¹, Juan Manuel Viveros-Paredes^1,

Fiber intake has been shown to increase gastrointestinal motility, slow gastric emptying rate, reduce glucose absorption, and body weight, increase insulin sensitivity, and stimulate the hunger-satisfaction effect. Despite the high fiber variety, this set of characteristics is not present in all products. For this reason, this study assessed the physicochemical and structural properties of B. gasipaes nanocellulose and its metabolic effect on glucose regulation, intestinal motility, and orexigenic and anorexigenic hormones related to signals of food consumption and body weight gain/loss. The peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) nanocellulose has a particle size of 44.30 μm, which increases its water balance, oil, and viscosity retention capacity, allowing at a concentration of 12.50 mg/kg to decrease the rate of gastric emptying, with an increase in water retention in feces, reduction in body weight, glucose reduction, and other effects on intestinal markers of inflammation and gastrointestinal hormones. As a conclusion, the consumption of nanocellulose in mice of the BALB/c strain reduces the sense of hunger and stimulates the feeling of satiety, which may have a positive effect in the decrease of metabolic-related diseases.

fiber, gastrointestinal, glucose, nanocellulose, peach palm, satiety