Effect of fructo-oligosaccharides on intestinal microflora

✍ Scribed by Mitsuoka, Tomotari ;Hidaka, Hidemasa ;Eida, Toshiaki

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0027-769X
• DOI: 10.1002/food.19870310528

✦ Synopsis

Fructo-oligosaccharides are widely distributed in plants such as onions, asparagus, wheat etc., and obtained from sucrose by the action of fructosyltransferase. They are not hydrolyzed by human digestive enzymes, but are utilized by intestinal bacteria such as bifidobacteria. BuciProi+s frogiris group, peprosrrepiococci and klebsiellue. In the experiment with 23 patients (73 9 years old), improvement of fecal microflora was observed by oral administration of fructo-oligosaccharides 8 g per day for two weeks: the population of hifidohucreriu in feces increased about 10 times compared before the administration; average pH of stool showed 0.3 lower than that before administration.