SACCHARIDE FOR PROLIFERATION OF BIFIDOBACTERIUM

• Main Authors: IWAMOTO AKIHISA, KITAOKA KUMIKO, TAKAHASHI HIDEKI, KUWABARA NOBUHIRO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.08.1994
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: BEER; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF; CULTURE MEDIA; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; ENZYMOLOGY; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS OR ENZYMES; MUTATION OR GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; NUCLEOSIDES; NUCLEOTIDES; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PROPAGATING, PRESERVING OR MAINTAINING MICROORGANISMS; SPECIFIC THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS ORMEDICINAL PREPARATIONS; SPIRITS; SUGARS; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; VINEGAR; WINE

PURPOSE:To obtain a saccharide sugar excellent in the resistance to acids and capable of being well assimilated by Bifidobacterium but hardly being assimilated by other indigenous or noxious bacteria by incorporating a specific glycosylxyluloside. CONSTITUTION:The objective product contains, as a saccharide for proliferrating Bifidobacterium, a glycosylxyluloside wherein a xylulosyl group binds to alpha- hydroxy group at 1-position of glucose through a beta-bond. This saccharide has a low decomposition rate before reaching ileum and large intestine when orally administered and is easily crystallized in an aqueous solution and easily pulverized to form crystalline powder.