Biological functions of ICL® Polydextrose

ICL® Polydextrose is a kind of excellent soluble dietary fibre, and the rate of the dietary fibre contained in it is more than 90%. ICL® Polydextrose is also a kind of foodstuff/food additive with the function of health care. It can supplement soluble dietary fibre that people's body needs. After entrance into people's digestive system, it has especial physical metabolizing function, so that it can prevent constipation and the aggradation of fat. It can also reduce the absorbing or carcinogen and poisonous materials; adjust the level of cholesterol; limit the activity of β-dextrose and glycin-enzyme in intestines; eliminate the inducement to the induration of blood vessels. Therefore, ICL® Polydextrose can clean off the waste in people's body and has the function of curing constipation, reducing fat and blood pressure, preventing tumours in intestines and galbladder, and nourishing our skins. Most of the fibres contained in high-fibre food are thawless; however, ICL® Polydextrose can easily be dissolved by water and has the following health care functions that common thawless/insoluble fibres do not have.

(1).To adjust the metabolizing of fat.

Clinic experiments show that a proper sum of ICL® Polydextrose in small intestines can produce a layer of membrane, which can prevent the absorbing of fat in the alimentary canal and accelerate the excretion of lipoid compounds, so that it is able to adjust the sum of fat in blood and prevent blood vessel disease in heart and brain.

(2).To improve the metabolizing of glucide.

ICL® Polydextrose can reduce the absorption of glucide, while they themselves can not be absorbed. Low-sugar and low-heat food is helpful to diabetics.

(3).To cure constipation and prevent diarrhea.

ICL® Polydextrose can preserve moisture, accelerate the peristalsis of intestines, soften and enlarge dejecta, and in the end expedite excretion. Obvious curative effect can be seen after 3 days' use.

(4).To enhance immunity ability.

ICL® Polydextrose can dilute the consistence of the harmful things in intestines and expedite excretion. Clinic practice proves that it can prevent and cure cancer, particularly colon cancer, in some ways.

(5).To control the excessive taking of food.

ICL® Polydextrose can help people to prevent excessive taking of food and accumulation of fat. It is a new star among food additives. It brings a new effective way to health-care food industry, and it is called "the 7th nutriment" which is essential to people's body world widely. In recent years, as one of the indispensable components of many foodstuffs and health-care food, ICL® Polydextrose is more and more attractive to people. Among food additives, ICL® Polydextrose can be used as thickness-adding additives, fill-in additives, and formula additives. It is an important raw material to produce health-care food of low heat, low fat, low cholesterol and low natrium. It can play some important roles in foodstuff, such as taking on necessary size, improving oily mouth feeling of food, etc. With low freezing point, it can be used to make cold dietary and sweet snack. It will never lead to decayed tooth. In wet tender food, ICL® Polydextrose can increase its freshness and tenderness. It can also be eaten directly after it is melt into milk or water.