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Inulin, the Latest on a (Functional) Food Ingredient + Dietary Supplement: From Autoimmune to Metabolic Disease & Co

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Globe artichokes have the most highly polymerized inulin fibers. They can be served cooked or oven-roasted . The journal  Molecular Nutrition & Food Research  is probably food designers' favorite bedtime reading because the articles about various functional food ingredients inspire them to dream up ever-new [(dys-)functional)] food formulas you will soon find on the shelves at your local supermarket. With inulin, a fructose-based polysaccharide fiber, which is the object of several papers in the latest issue of said scientific journal, I want to address one of these ingredients that has already made it from bench to bedside... ah, I mean from bench to protein bars and other functional foods such as dairy products, frozen desserts, table spreads, baked goods and breads, breakfast cereals, fillings, dietetic products or chocolate for today's research update ... an update that focuses on beneficial effects, but won't conceal the potential issues people w/ FODMAP into...
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Gut Bugs Determine Health Benefits of Sourdough Whole-Grain Bread | Glycemia Improves W/ White Bread in Some!

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Yes, white bread can be the healthier choice. Whether your post-prandial glycemic response will improve or deteriorate with white vs. whole-grain sourdough bread appears to be fully dependent on your gut bugs. Even though it has gotten a bad rep over the past 20 years, bread is (still?) consumed daily by billions of people, worldwide. I guess that's also because the scientific evidence of which the Internet gurus will tell you that it would "prove that bread is the devil" is by no means unambiguous. It was thus high time for scientists to perform a randomized crossover trial like the one by Talk Korem and colleagues from the Weizmann Institute of Science  - a study that used data from two 1-week-long dietary interventions comprising consumption of either traditionally made sourdough-leavened whole-grain bread or industrially made white bread. Review older articles about the gut - health  axis.at the SuppVersity Bugs Dictate What You Crave Sweeteners & Y...
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Supplement Review: Lactulose - Isomerized Lactose With Prebiotic, Anti-Constipation, -Cancer, -Hyperammonia, -Salmonella, -Endotoxin & Pro-Mineral Absorption Effects

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Don't worry: There is more than flatulence and diarrhea to lactulose... I mean, why do you think I'd write about it, then? I am not sure if all of you have already heard of 4-O-β-D-galactopyranosyl-D-fructose aka lactulose, a synthetic nondigestible sugar you can buy either as a white, odorless powder or as a syrup. It tastes, contrary to what you may expect, pretty good, a bit like hilariously sweet honey, if you asked me, and sweet enough to be used as an "artificial" sweetener. A sweetener that has traditionally been sold as a medicinal drug for decades but is not appearing on an ever-increasing number of ingredient lists of so-called "functional" food products. Despite the fact that the market has grown appreciably over the last 10 years (Panesar & Kumari. 2011), lactulose is after all not yet as "popular" as inulin and the rest of its prebiotic brethren. From drug, to supplement to food additive The mere fact that the easiest but c...
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