Polydextrose is a synthetic polymer of glucose. It is a food ingredient classified as soluble fiber by the US FDA as well as Health Canada, as of April 2013. It is frequently used to increase the dietary fiber content of food, to replace sugar, and to reduce calories and fat content. It is a multi-purpose food ingredient synthesized from dextrose (glucose), plus about 10 percent sorbitol and 1 percent citric acid. The FDA approved it in 1981.
Polydextrose is a water-soluble dietary fiber that appears as small white particles.
- Detoxification and beauty: Polydextrose can effectively regulate the pH value of the intestine, promote the rapid reproduction of beneficial bacteria such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, thereby inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria, and excreting toxins and metabolites in the body in time, achieving the effect of detoxification and beauty, and preventing the occurrence of hemorrhoids, gastroenteritis, colon cancer and other diseases.
- Regulate body fat metabolism: Polydextrose can form a membrane in the small intestine, limiting the absorption of fat and sugar, increasing satiety, effectively preventing obesity, lowering blood sugar levels, and preventing diabetes.
- Lower cholesterol: Polydextrose can absorb bile acid and inhibit cholesterol concentration. It can prevent arteriosclerosis, cholelithiasis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
- Prevent constipation: Polydextrose absorbs water and swells in the human intestine, stimulating intestinal peristalsis, increasing stool volume, and increasing bowel movement frequency, thus playing a role in moisturizing the intestine and preventing constipation.
- Detoxification and beauty: Polydextrose can effectively regulate the pH value of the intestine, promote the rapid reproduction of beneficial bacteria such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli, thereby inhibiting the growth of harmful bacteria, and excreting toxins and metabolites in the body in time, achieving the effect of detoxification and beauty, and preventing the occurrence of hemorrhoids, gastroenteritis, colon cancer and other diseases.
