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US 6,043,229 AGranted
Highly fermentable resistant starch
AssigneeCerestar Holding B.V.
InventorsBernd Wolfgang Kettlitz, Jozef Victor Jean-Marie Coppin, Harald Wilhelm Walter Roper, Francis Bornet
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Abstract
The present invention discloses that retrograded starch having more than 55% resistant starch with >50% chains of DP 10-35 gives rise to a significantly higher amount of n-butyrate production under conditions simulating the human colon. It is expected that such an increased n-butyrate production will diminish the development of colon diseases notably of colon cancer.
Claims13
A partially degraded, debranched and retrograde starch comprising more than 55% (w/w) pancreatine resistant starch (RS),
- wherein the resistant starch consists essentially of alpha-glucans having a chain length distribution of more than 50% in the range between (DP) 10 and 35 and a differential scanning chromatography (DSC) melting temperature below 115.degree. C.
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