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Carbohydrate Trivia

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  Carbohydrates can be divided into three types: monosaccharides, oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.    1. Sugar    Monosaccharides are the simplest sugar in structure, under usual terms, they can no longer be broken into smalller sugar monomers. Mainly of them are glucose, D-galactose, D-fructose.    Disaccharides are the molecules which are produced by dehydration of the hydroxyl groups on two identical different monosaccharide molecules.    The most common disaccharides in nature are sucroses and lactose,what’s more ,there are also   maltose, trehalose, isomaltose, cellobiose, chitobiose, etc.    Sugar alcohol is an important derivative of monosaccharides, common ones are sorbitol, mannitol, xylitol, maltitol and so on.    Oligosaccharides are also called oligosaccharides.  Several currently konwn important oligosaccharides include raffinose, stachyose, isomalto-oligosaccharides, fructooligosaccharides, mannose oligosaccharides, soybean oligosaccharides and so on.  Its sweetness

Resistant Dextrin, a New Breakthrough in Dietary Fiber Research

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  Resistant dextrin is a kind of water-soluble dietary fiber, although from the literal point of view, the words "resistant dextrin" are difficult to connect with dietary fiber. However, in fact, resistant dextrin is not only dietary fiber, but also a typical representative of water-soluble dietary fiber. Resistant dextrin has low molecular weight, good processing characteristics and physiological functions. It is widely used in dietary supplements, functional food and health food. And it will also be applied to special medical purposes, which can be described as a promising prospect.   The US FDA recognizes resistant dextrin as a GRAS substance, and there is no intake restriction. In 2012, the Ministry of Health of China proposed that the resistant dextrin as an ordinary food and can be added to food in an unlimited amount. In Japan, resistant dextrin is widely used as a nutrient fortifier and has been recognized as a specific health food material by the Japanese Ministry of

The Magical Effect of "Resistant Dextrin"

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  Chinese people's diet is mainly composed of cereals, supplemented by vegetables and fruits, so there is no risk of lack of dietary fiber. However, with the improvement of living standards, the degree of food refinement is getting higher and higher, and the proportion of animal food is greatly increased.   In some big cities, the proportion of heat production from dietary fat has increased from 20% to 25% a few decades ago to 40-45% at present, while the intake of dietary fiber has decreased significantly.   This is that "life’s better, less fiber." It leads to some so-called "modern civilization diseases", such as obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and so on. At the same time, there are some diseases related to the lack of dietary fiber, such as bowel cancer, constipation, and intestinal polyps. And their incidence rate is increasing.   Obesity is a phenomenon caused by excessive accumulation of fat in human body, which is not regarded as a sign of "health

How to Estimate How Much Fiber We Eat in a Day

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  The fiber food guidelines issued by the United Nations illuminated that a healthy people should have 30-50g (dry weight) fiber in their daily diet. Therefore, each of us should evaluate how much dietary fiber we eat in a day, and appropriately adjust our diet based on the evaluation results.Because dietary fiber is an essential nutrient in the human body and cannot be synthesized in the human body, it must be supplemented in the diet every day.   To estimate dietary fiber intake, three data are needed: the amount of plant-derived foods consumed daily, the cellulose content and the water content.  Take the current average dietary fiber intake of the urban population in my country as an example to illustrate the estimation method:   1. If calculated on the basis of 250 grams of ration per capita: the fiber content of refined white flour is about 2%. Therefore, people who rely on flour as the staple food will get about 7 grams of cellulose from the staple food every day; the cellulose c

Reasonable intake of dietary fiber is beneficial to weight loss

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  We often hear those who introduce weight loss experience say that pay attention to supply lamentably dietary fiber when you lose weight, since it can help lose weight cure constipation, detoxify , and fight cancer. In short, in their description, there are many benefits and even no harm is done.   Maybe you also eat a lot of high-fiber drinks, biscuits and even drugs when you lose weight , hopping to supplement dietary fiber and become thinner. But how to consume dietary fiber is scientific and reasonable?   Why dietary fiber helps lose weight?   In fact , dietary fiber cannot directly make us thinner, nor can it be digested by the body, and can not provide nutrition.But it can well promote the digestion and excretion of solid waste.  Appropriate supplementation of dietary fiber can soften the food in our intestines and promote intestinal peristalsis, thereby speeding up bowel movements, preventing constipation and reducing the risk of liver cancer.In addition, fiber can help regulat