Health Benefits of Energy Sugar

 Saigao Food additives company is committed to the development of functional sugar and biological fermentation industry, gradually from the production of functional food ingredients, to the focus of industrial advantages, committed to improving the cause of nutrition and health, the core products are resistant dextrin, oligofructose, Isomaltooligosaccharide, polysaccharose, maltitol, galactooligosaccharide, xylooligosaccharide, etc.

 

As a new physiologically active substance, functional sugar has attracted much attention for its application in disease diagnosis and prevention, nutrition and health care, plant growth and disease resistance, and animal husbandry.

 

What is functional sugar? Functional sugar actually refers to several substances with special physiological effects such as functional oligosaccharides, functional nutrition dietary fiber, and functional sugar alcohols.

 

Among them, functional oligosaccharides refer to functional sugars that have a certain improvement effect on human health. Most of them consist of 2-10 monosaccharides connected by glycosidic bonds to form linear or branched low-degree polymerized sugars. Not all oligosaccharides become functional sugars. Only when they are not digested and absorbed in the human gastrointestinal tract and directly enter the large intestine, oligosaccharides used by bifidobacteria are called functional sugars, because they are not hydrolyzed in the human intestine (except The enzyme system other than isomaltulose), so they are not digested and absorbed directly into the large intestine. This feature allows them to be used preferentially by bifidobacteria, which are the proliferation factors of beneficial intestinal bacteria, also known as prebiotics. These functional sugars mainly include: xylo-oligosaccharides (xylo-oligosaccharides), fructo-oligosaccharides (fructose oligosaccharides), stachyose, galacto-oligosaccharides, isomalto-oligosaccharides, soybean oligosaccharides, etc. Functional sugars are mostly sugars made from corncob, bagasse, wheat straw and other hemicellulose-rich substances through acid method, acid enzyme method or enzymatic method, such as xylo-oligosaccharides; or some starch sugars through acid Method, acid-enzyme method or enzymatic method of preparing sugar, such as isomalt oligosaccharide. Functional dietary fiber is a high-molecular carbohydrate. Because it cannot be digested and absorbed by the human body, it has no nutritional value. However, it can slow down the digestion speed and excrete cholesterol most quickly, which can increase the blood sugar. And cholesterol control above the ideal level, can also help diabetic patients to reduce insulin and triglycerides. Functional sugar alcohols mainly include sorbitol, maltitol, xylitol, erythritol, and isomalt. Because sugar alcohols do not cause a significant increase in insulin in the body, they are added to many foods that require sweetness but must be sugar-free. Such foods have become the first choice for diabetics.