{"id":541,"date":"2009-08-03T11:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:28:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:28:03","slug":"trehalose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/trehalose\/","title":{"rendered":"Trehalose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as mycose.\u00a0 Trehalose is a disaccharide found in mushrooms, insects, other fungi, plants and bacteria.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0consists of 2 glucose units linked together by an alpha 1-1 glucoside bond.\u00a0 Trehalose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctahr.hawaii.edu\/oc\/freepubs\/pdf\/FST-16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digests more slowly than many other dietary sugars<\/a>, and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hayashibara-intl.com\/food\/trehalose.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">moderate glycemic index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trehalose is used largely as a <a href=\"http:\/\/online.liebertpub.com\/action\/cookieAbsent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cryopreservative<\/a> and food additive, as it&#8217;s hygroscopic and enhances the stability of proteins.\u00a0 Trehalose also has potential therapeutic uses: animal studies have shown <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/14730359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it has protective effects<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18683244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Huntington&#8217;s Disease<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16137568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alzheimer&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as mycose.\u00a0 Trehalose is a disaccharide found in mushrooms, insects, other fungi, plants and bacteria.\u00a0\u00a0It\u00a0consists of 2 glucose units linked together by an alpha 1-1 glucoside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[100,368,475,531,680,943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}