Dietary β-glucans are soluble fibers with potentially health-promoting effects. Gut peptides are important signals in the regulation of energy and glucose homeostasis. This article reviews the effects of different enriched β-glucan food consumption on immune responses, inflammation, gut hormone and cancer.

Gut hormones are influenced by enriched β-glucan food consumption and levels of such peptide as YY, ghrelin, glucagon-like peptide 1 and 2 in humans influence serum glucose concentration as well as innate and adaptive immunity. Cancer cell development is also regulated by obesity and glucose dishomeostasy that are influenced by β-glucan food consumption that in turn regulated gut hormones.

膳食中的β-葡聚糖是具有潜在健康促进作用的可溶性纤维。肠肽是调节能量和葡萄糖稳态的重要信号。本文回顾了食用各种富含β-葡聚糖的食物对免疫反应，炎症，肠道激素和癌症的影响。

肠道激素受丰富的β-葡聚糖食物消耗量的影响，人体中YY，ghrelin，胰高血糖素样肽1和2等肽的水平会影响血清葡萄糖浓度以及先天性和适应性免疫。肥胖和葡萄糖代谢紊乱也可调节癌细胞的发育，而肥胖和葡萄糖代谢受β-葡聚糖食物消耗的影响，而食用葡萄糖会反过来调节肠道激素。