Tolerance to low-digestible carbohydrates: symptomatology and methods.

@article{Marteau2001ToleranceTL,
  title={Tolerance to low-digestible carbohydrates: symptomatology and methods.},
  author={Philippe Marteau and Bernard Flourié},
  journal={The British journal of nutrition},
  year={2001},
  volume={85 Suppl 1},
  pages={
          S17-21
        }
}
Low-digestible carbohydrates (LDCs) are incompletely or not absorbed in the small bowel and fermented in the colon. They are usually well tolerated but may also have some dose-related undesirable effects due to their natural osmotic potential and/or excessive fermentation: borborygmi, excessive flatus, bloating, abdominal cramps and eventually diarrhoea. There is an important intersubject variability in the tolerance to LDCs because of differences in absorption capacity, motility pattern… 
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