Nearly 0.1 g of the micro-scale sugar beet pulp materials were exposed to enzymatic solution containing pancreatic α-amylase (30 U/ml) and amyloglucosidase (300 U/ml) for 16 h at 37 1C at 100 rpm. These conditions stimulated the intestine environment. The samples were withdrawn at the end of the 16 h, and dried at 40 1C overnight and weighed. The digestion was calculated as percent weight loss of the material.
X- ray diffraction studies were done to study the suscept- ibility of the materials for pancreatic enzymatic hydrolysis