SOLUBLE CORN FIBER AND CALCIUM RESORPTION
The article is based on the new research from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana reveals that Soluble Corn Fiber (CSF) supplementation significantly helps the bone to better absorb and utilize calcium in women at their teens and post menopause periods.
CSF is a non-digestible carbohydrate present in packed foods, such as cereals, bread, and bakery items. Also used in beverages, frozen foods, candies, carbonated and flavored water.
SCF is added to packed edibles to compensate for their loss of dietary fibers while processing.SCF is having all benefits of intact dietary fibers found in grains, legumes, veggies, and fruits plus the recent research has revealed that it improves intestinal regularities and has prebiotic properties.
Moreover SCF improves healthy blood glucose and improves bone health by increasing calcium absorption.
The research reveals that SCF a prebiotic supports the body better absorb and utilize calcium during both adolescence and post-menopause. The gut microbe flora plays an important role in this by breaking the SCF to be used by the body very easily.
Commercially the SCF is available in the brand of Promotor Dietary Fiber and labeled as Maltodextrin. The product is manufactured by Tate & Lyle Ingredients America LLC who funded the research.
The research detailed their findings that after CSF passes through the gut unlike the intact dietary fibers these soluble fibers are digested and broken down by the gut flora to short-chain fatty acids which helps in the maintenance of bone health
CSF is a non-digestible carbohydrate present in packed foods, such as cereals, bread, and bakery items. Also used in beverages, frozen foods, candies, carbonated and flavored water.
SCF is added to packed edibles to compensate for their loss of dietary fibers while processing.SCF is having all benefits of intact dietary fibers found in grains, legumes, veggies, and fruits plus the recent research has revealed that it improves intestinal regularities and has prebiotic properties.
Moreover SCF improves healthy blood glucose and improves bone health by increasing calcium absorption.
The research reveals that SCF a prebiotic supports the body better absorb and utilize calcium during both adolescence and post-menopause. The gut microbe flora plays an important role in this by breaking the SCF to be used by the body very easily.
Commercially the SCF is available in the brand of Promotor Dietary Fiber and labeled as Maltodextrin. The product is manufactured by Tate & Lyle Ingredients America LLC who funded the research.
The research detailed their findings that after CSF passes through the gut unlike the intact dietary fibers these soluble fibers are digested and broken down by the gut flora to short-chain fatty acids which helps in the maintenance of bone health
THE STUDY
n the postmenopausal study, 14 healthy postmenopausal women in three groups. The first group consumed 0 grams, the second group 10 grams, and the third group 20 grams of SCF every day for 50 days. The women in the groups that received 10 grams and 20 grams - amounts that are found in supplement form - displayed bone calcium retention improvement by 4.8 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
"If projected out for a year, this would equal and counter the average rate of bone loss in a post-menopausal woman," says Weaver, an expert in mineral bioavailability, calcium metabolism, botanicals, and bone health.
In the adolescent study, 28 girls aged between 11-14 years old consumed either 0 grams, 10 grams, or 20 grams of SCF every day for 4 weeks, while maintaining their regular diet. The females in both the 10 gram and 20 gram SCF groups saw an increase in calcium absorption by around 12 percent, which would build 1.8 percent more skeleton per year.
Gastrointestinal symptoms were minimal in both studies and the same was seen in the control groups.
"Most studies looking at benefits from soluble corn fiber are trying to solve digestion problems, and we are the first to determine that this relationship of feeding certain kind of fiber can alter the gut microbiome in ways that can enhance health," Weaver said. "We found this prebiotic can help healthy people use minerals better to support bone health."
"If projected out for a year, this would equal and counter the average rate of bone loss in a post-menopausal woman," says Weaver, an expert in mineral bioavailability, calcium metabolism, botanicals, and bone health.
In the adolescent study, 28 girls aged between 11-14 years old consumed either 0 grams, 10 grams, or 20 grams of SCF every day for 4 weeks, while maintaining their regular diet. The females in both the 10 gram and 20 gram SCF groups saw an increase in calcium absorption by around 12 percent, which would build 1.8 percent more skeleton per year.
Gastrointestinal symptoms were minimal in both studies and the same was seen in the control groups.
"Most studies looking at benefits from soluble corn fiber are trying to solve digestion problems, and we are the first to determine that this relationship of feeding certain kind of fiber can alter the gut microbiome in ways that can enhance health," Weaver said. "We found this prebiotic can help healthy people use minerals better to support bone health."
