Prebiotic Carbohydrate Ingredients for Supplements, Food, and Beverage Applications

The United States and global obesity and diabetic epidemics are uncontrollable due to high caloric food consumption.  Low digestible carbohydrates are an emerging class of foods and have been shown to be essential for maintaining blood sugar levels, digestive system-colon health, preventing certain cancers, and promoting health-promoting bacteria in the lower intestine. Hence, there is a need for isolating, producing, and enriching prebiotic carbohydrate ingredients. This novel technology enables producing low digestible carbohydrates for better human health (i.e., low caloric and glycemic properties), while still maintaining superior sensory and functional properties of food. Furthermore, the carbohydrate ingredients and their blends produced through this process are notably organic, non-allergenic, non-gluten, and non-GMO.  These properties will have a positive impact on the marketability of the carbohydrate ingredients that is not available with wheat, corn, or other allergenic carbohydrates.