Polydextrose Information
- Polydextrose state: white or near-to-white, solid amorphous powder, solute to water, solubility degree 70%. The PH value of 10% water solution is 2.5-7.0.
- Polydextrose is a kind of excellent soluble meal fibre, and the rate of the meal fibre contained in it is more than 90%. Polydextrose is a kind of foodstuff with the function of health care. It can supplement soluble meal 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 aggradations of fat. It can also reduce the absorbing or carcinogen and poisonous materials; adjust the level of cholesterol; limit the activity of –dextrose and glycin-enzyme in intestines; eliminate the inducement to the indurations of the indurations of blood vessels. Therefore, soluble meal fibre 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 gallbladders, and nourishing our skins. Most of the fibres contained in hi-fibre food are thawless; however, Polydextrose can easily be dissolved by water and has the following health care functions that common thawless fibres do not have:
Polydextrose Functions
- 1.To adjust the metabolizing of fat
- Clinic experiments show that a proper sum of soluble fibre 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 lower the cholesterol
- Soluble dietary fibre can absorb bile acid, cholesterol variation material and other organic molecule, restrain the total cholesterol density level, decrease the bile acid synthesizing and absorbing, and lower the cholesterol level of the body blood and the liver to prevent and cure arteriosclerosis and cholecystolithiasis and to prevent heart and brain vascular diseases.
- 2.To improve the metabolizing of glucide
- Soluble fibres 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
- Soluble fibres 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.
- Since soluble fibres are good at preserving moisture, they can dilute the consistence of the harmful things in intestines and expedite excretion. Clinic practice proves that soluble fibres can prevent and cure cancer, particularly colon cancer, in some ways.
- 5.To control the excessive taking of food
- Soluble fibres can help people to prevent excessive taking of food and accumulation of fat. Polydextrose 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. In recent years, as one of the indispensable components of many foodstuffs and health-care food, meal fibres are more and more attractive to people. Among food additives, soluble meal fibres 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 and it can be used to make cold meal and sweet snack. It will never lead to decayed tooth. In wet tender food, soluble meal fibres can increase its freshness and tenderness. Polydextrose can also be eaten directly after it is melt into milk or water.
Polydextrose Applications:
Polydextrose has similar technological properties to sugar and functions in food as a humectant, bulking agent, stabiliser and texturiser. It can be also used as a food ingredient when present in significant quantities as a replacement for sugar and/or starch in food where lower energy content is desired. As food additives, Polydextrose has the following usage:
- 1.Health care products: As the raw and supplementary materials of the healthy food and the carrier of health care products aimed at constipation, diabetics, obesity etc., which is the key body of its application nowadays. The reference use volume is 30 percent to 90 percent.
- 2. Beverage: fruit juice, coffee, tea drinks, carbonic acid drinks, bean milk drinks, nutrition drinks, powder drinks, etc. 0.5%-5%
- 3. Dairy products: milk and flavoring milk, fermenting milk, lactobacillus drinks, brewage milk powder, etc.1%-5%
- 4. Candies and confectionery: all kinds of soft hard candies, chocolate, cookies, moon cakes, various western-style kuchens, sheep soup. If added into the stuffing of cakes, it can keep them delicious and fresh. 5%-30%
- 5. Sweet snacks: pudding, jelly, etc. 0.5%-6%
- 6. Ice snacks: Ice cream, frozen sucker, ice candy, etc. 0.5%-6%
- 7. Wines: beer. Polydextrose can make the foam of beer lasting and delicate.
- 8. Flour Products: Flour, cakes, biscuit, instant noodles, etc. 5%-20%
- 9. Seasoning Products: jam, soy sauce, vinegar, seasoning for hot pot, solid essence etc.10%-15%
- 10. Soup materials: instant noodle soup material, hot pot soup materials etc. 10%-15%
- 11. Meat products: Ham, luncheon meat, sandwich, dried meat floss, filling and so on made by adding the soluble dietary fibre of Tailijie Brand are healthy meal foods of high protein, high fibre, low fat, and low heat. The reference volume is 2.5%-3%.
Polydextrose is a good choice as an economical fiber source for use in dairy products such as ice cream, frozen novelties, dairy beverages and fruit systems for yogurt. There are currently many successful products on the market that have incorporated Polydextrose, where the Polydextrose actually improves taste and texture. Polydextrose enables the development of products with nutrient content claims such as high in fibre, good source of fibre, reduced calorie, no sugar added, and sugar free, suitable for diabetics or reduced glycemic load.