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Curves of complex modulus (G*, Pa) against the temperature (°C) for the extra-virgin olive oil- (a–c) and sunflower- (d–f) based gels as a function of the adopted cooling temperature: 25°C (a,d), 4 °C (b,e), and 0 °C (c,f). The following systems were investigated: extra-virgin olive oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax (EVO-Control), extra-virgin olive oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 40 µm (EVO-BF₄₀), extra-virgin olive oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 90 µm (EVO-BF₉₀), and extra-virgin olive oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 150 µm (EVO-BF₁₅₀); sunflower oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax (SFO-Control), sunflower oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 40 µm (SFO-BF₄₀), sunflower oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 90 µm (SFO-BF₉₀), and sunflower oil structured with 10% of rice bran wax loaded with bamboo fiber of 150 µm (SFO-BF₁₅₀).

Principal component analysis (PCA) biplot indicating the means of the associations between chemical characteristics and physical properties of five treatments of tapioca substituted with rice bran: A = starch: rice bran (100:0); B = starch: rice bran (75:25); C = starch: rice bran (50:50); D = starch: rice bran (25:75); E = starch: rice bran (100:0).

Consumption of a rice bran or Bifidobacterium longum-fermented rice bran diet alters healthy murine microbiome composition compared to the control diet. Bar charts of log2 fold differences for sixteen differentially abundant (FDR-P<0.1) amplicon sequence variants; six ASVs exhibited conserved enrichment in mice fed rice bran or B. longum-fermented rice bran diets compared to control; 11 ASVs were conserved in control versus either experimental diet. Comparisons depicted in each panel are as follows: (A) rice bran vs control; (B) B. longum-fermented rice bran vs control; (C) rice bran vs B. longum-fermented rice bran. Bar colours denote mouse diet group. ASV taxonomic identities appended with the (‘) symbol indicate matched assignments for both Greengenes and SILVA databases; otherwise SILVA identity was specified.