Food products elaborated with isomaltooligosaccharide

促进健康和降低疾病风险的食品配料正变得越来越受欢迎，食品行业正面临着重新设计传统食品以获得最佳营养价值的挑战。不可消化低聚糖(NDO)具有对消费者健康有益的重要生理特性，包括无致龋性、低热值和刺激结肠中有益细菌生长的能力。许多核糖核酸是不被人类消化的。这一特性使其适合用于甜味、低卡路里的饮食食品，也适合糖尿病患者食用。除了生理特性外，NDO还具有几种物理化学益处，这使得它们用作食品配料特别吸引人。NDO是水溶性的，略带甜味(通常是蔗糖的0.3到0.6倍)。它们相对较低的甜度是有用的，当需要一种降低甜度的膨胀剂来增强其他食品的味道时。与单糖和双糖相比，氮多糖的相对分子质量更高，从而增加了粘度，改善了身体和口感。生物中性公司是一家高质量核动力源的制造商。该公司目前向食品制造商供应VitaFiberTM IMO(低聚异麦芽糖)，并在批发市场表现出吸引力，该成分在各种加工食品中显示出实用性。该项目的目标是开发配方，在配方中用IMO取代蔗糖，产生具有非常相似特征并具有良好消费者接受度的产品。该项目的成果将通过展示国际海事组织的多功能性和在各种终端产品中的应用，支持生物中立公司向零售和直接面向消费者市场的扩张。

Food ingredients that promote health and reduce the risk of disease are becoming increasingly popular, and thefood industry is being challenged to redesign traditional foods for optimal nutritional value. Non-digestible oligosaccharides (NDOs) possess important physiological properties that are beneficial to the health of consumers, including non-cariogenicity, a low calorific value and the ability to stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria in the colon. Many NDOs are not digested by humans. This property makes them suitable for use in sweet, low-calorie diet foods, and for consumption by individuals with diabetes. In addition to physiological properties, NDOs provide several physicochemical benefits, which make their use as food ingredients particularly attractive. NDOs are water soluble and mildly sweet (typically 0.3 to 0.6 times as sweet as sucrose). Their relatively low sweetness is useful when a bulking agent with reduced sweetness is desirable to enhance other food flavours. The higher molecular weight of NDOs (as compared to mono- and disaccharides) provides increased viscosity, leading to improved body and mouthfeel. BioNeutra is a manufacturer of high quality NDOs. The company currently supplies food manufacturers with VitaFiberTM IMO (isomaltooligosaccharide), and has demonstrated traction in the wholesale market with the ingredient showing utility in a wide variety of processed food products. The goal of this project is to develop recipes where the replacement of sucrose with IMO results in products of very similar characteristics and with good consumer acceptance. The outcomes of this project should support BioNeutra's expansion into the retail and direct-to-consumer markets by showcasing IMO's versatility and application in a variety of end products.