Bio-based materials are increasingly used as packaging and encapsulating materials in nutrients and nutraceutical applications. Most widely used bio-based materials are acid hydrolyzed polysaccharides obtained from corn, wheat, soybean, and potato. Nevertheless, lately polysaccharides from agricultural by-products have gained attention, due their superior nutritional properties, as animal feed. Sugar beet pulp is one of the agricultural by-products, which is rich in non-sucrose carbohydrates compared to other by-products (soybean meal, wheat straw, and distillers' dries grains). However, to the best of our knowledge there has not been any reported data on the use of sugar beet pulp carbohy- drates for food and pharmaceutical applications