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Learn About Inulin
What is Inulin?
Inulin Health Benefits
Inulin Vs. Sweeteners
Inulin Products
Inulin Research
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INULIN HEALTH BENEFITS
Inulin has been found to be desirable as a food or a food additive for the following principal reasons:
- Inulin strengthens the immune system.
- Inulin supports a healthy circulatory (blood) system in that it lowers total cholesterol in the blood, lowers low-density lipoproteins (LDL), and lowers triglycerides, while raising high-density lipoproteins (HDL).
- Inulin, as shown by research in the Ukraine, shrank cancerous tumors and healed blood diseases caused by the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Inulin and other dietary fibers have established their efficacy in decreasing cancers of the colon.
- Inulin does not require insulin for digestion and therefore does not produce an energy depression before or after digestion as sucrose and glucose do.
- Inulin is an excellent food for the person with diabetes since it does not require insulin for its digestion.
- Inulin is an excellent food for all who want to avoid diabetes since inulin makes no demand on the pancreas to produce surges of insulin.
- Inulin eliminates hyperglycemia if taken to replace the natural conventional sugars because inulin does not give spikes of blood-glucose to the body.
- Inulin will prevent hypoglycemia because inulin provides steady blood-glucose to the mind and muscles over sustained periods of time.
- Inulin is not broken down by the weak acid in the saliva and the bacteria in the mouth and does not, therefore, cause dental carries or cavities.
- Inulin curbs appetite since it is not digested in the stomach or small intestine but gives a feeling of fullness in both places.
- Inulin, as it passes through the small intestine, increases the absorption of vitamins and minerals from other foods (through the mucosa lining of the intestine into the blood stream) by at least seventeen percent (17%).
- Inulin, as a dietary fiber, feeds the beneficial bifidobacteria in the large intestine. Thus inulin,by definition, is a “prebiotic.” A low pH is developed in the large intestine which kills bad bacteria such as e-coli and salmonella.
- Inulin, digested by the many strains of bifidobacteria in the gut, is turned into volatile fatty acids [VFA] which are absorbed through the mucosa lining of the large intestine, go to the liver and are there converted to blood glucose. Any VFA not used for energy are eliminated from the body and not turned into body fat as are other unused calories from energy-giving carbohydrates.
- Inulin decreases the tendency for diarrhea. Inulin overcomes lactose intolerance.
- Inulin eliminates constipation.
- Inulin on a gram-for-gram basis has sixty-two and one-half percent (62.5%) fewer calories than other carbohydrates such as starches, fructose, glucose, and sucrose.
- Inulin does not have a taste of its own but enhances the flavor of the food with which it is mixed or blended.
- Inulin, in its granulated form, has the “mouth feel” of sugar (sucrose).
- Inulin serves as a preservative when mixed with other foods (such as muffins or breads).
- Inulin, in its pure form, has a long shelf life.
- Inulin provides steady energy up to four hours or up to twelve hours, depending on the blend and the metabolism of the individual.
We believe this new food will become known as:
Inulin,
The Natural Dietary Energy Fiber |
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