Requires a comprehensive understanding of dietary fiber

What are dietary fiber?

What can I do with it? dietary fibre is defined as the food is not the human gastrointestinal digestive enzyme decomposition, non digestible ingredients combined.

In the past for dietary fiber is considered to be the plant cell wall components (cellulose), but today is not only limited to this concept has been expanded to include many improvement of plant cellulose, mucilage, pectin, algae amylose, etc.

Category: classification by solubility can be divided into soluble dietary fiber and insoluble dietary fiber.

Soluble fiber: gums, pectins, algae gel, bean gum.

Insoluble fiber: cellulose and lignin.

Dietary fiber in natural food components with unique functionality, this unique feature is the many components of dietary fibre, polysaccharides polymers.

Fruit, vegetables and pulses of polysaccharide polymers, and available in different ways from these plants extracted (e.g. Polydextrose, litesse), chemical synthesis of polymers is also included in the function of sugar. Currently on the market has a new type of soluble dietary fibre.

Function: to sum up the expansion function, water-holding capacity, colloidal form, ion exchange, improve gastrointestinal microflora and Thermogenesis low physiological functions.

Side effects: some people take more dietary fiber with abdominal distension, generally 1 dietary fiber total intake of up to 40 g-50 g, but excessive dietary fiber will affect the absorption of vitamins and trace elements, therefore the total recommended daily intakes in 20 g-30 grams.

Daily dietary intake of approximately 8 g — 10 grams of dietary fibre (in stunning a pound and a half pounds of vegetables, fruits). This requires additional dietary fiber is about 10 g — 20 g. In the intake, does not affect the absorption of vitamins and trace elements.

In addition, some diseases patients unsuitable for many food and dietary fiber: a variety of acute and chronic enteritis and typhoid fever, dysentery, diverticulitis, intestinal colon cancer, gastrointestinal bleeding, intestinal small operation, intestinal narrowing of the esophagus, esophageal varices in some.

Functional beverage market and dietary fiber: in recent years, functional or nutritional drinks market in Japan has been growing steadily.

Due to the popularity of medicinal drinks and popular, now Japan consumers that are not used to drink to quench their thirst, but think of it as such as vitamin-like a good source of nutrition, nutrition drinks in Japan is like "vitamin tablets" on United States consumers so important and welcome.

In 1988, Japan public pharmaceutical company to market a beverage called "Fiber-Mini", it is a polymer of glucose, soluble dietary fiber, as dietary fibre constituents of a fiber drinks.

Because of its successful sales strategy, in particular that it is a health drink, so a listing that has been generally welcomed. In "Mini" Fiber — not introduced previously, nutritious beverages are considered to be some of the men have nourishing effect of drinks, and "Mini" Fiber — which contain dietary fiber drinks that attracts so many young women in Japan, forming a "woman drinks" flavor of the market.

In Japan, there are 11 best-selling functional drinks, including six species contain dietary fiber.

In fact, in the General functional beverage sales, more than 70% of drinks contain dietary fiber. The survey found a company almost half of women are constipated or recurrent constipation. Suffering from constipation, not only have the uncomfortable feeling, and can cause skin problems, this is the young women are most concerned about. Therefore, the beauty and they may also have certain relations.