Polydextrose (Food Fibre)

1.State: white or near-to-white, solid 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 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 galbladder, 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:

1.To adjust the metabolizing of fat



2.To improve the metabolizing of glucide



3.To cure constipation and prevent diarrhea



4.To enhance immunity ability



5.To control the excessive taking of food



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,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.