JOURNAL OF JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR DIETARY FIBER RESEARCH
Online ISSN : 2186-5108
Print ISSN : 1343-1994
ISSN-L : 1343-1994
Replicability of the effect of Galactosylsucrose-containing food for specified health uses on fecal improvement in the case of availableness on usual life
Sadako NAKAMURATsuneyuki OKU
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2002 Volume 6 Issue 2 Pages 73-80

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Food for specified health uses is permitted one by one, and the specific health effect has to be certainly based on the scientific evidences. These evidences must be based on the results from the experimental protocol and be gotten under several experimental regulations. It has not been clarified whether the result of specific health effects are replicated and applicable or not, in the case of availableness on usual life. Oligosaccharides and sugar alcohols have the beneficial health effects and are often used for the ngredients of the food for specified health uses. The aim of this study is to estimate the replicability of the effect on the improvement of fecal conditions, when galactosylsucrose-containing food for specified health uses is ingested on the usual life. The subjects of this study (51 females, age; 20.1±2.1y.) have to ingest one package (48g, 12g×4 pieces) of the cookies type of food for specified health uses containing 4g of galactosylsucrose every day for 2 weeks. They have to ingest following the notice written in the package label, however, no experimental regulation is imposed on them. After 2 weeks ingestion, they report the questionnaire in terms of the effect on the fecal conditions including fecal frequency and comfortableness of defecation, fecal softness and odor, and satisfaction after defecate. There was tendency that 28 subjects (54.9%) improved the fecal frequency and 26 subjects (51.0%) improved fecal softness and comfortableness. Their frequency and comfortableness of defecation in 40 subjects with slight constipation were significantly changed better than that of in the subjects with normal defecation. These results suggested that the effect on the fecal conditions by ingestion of galactosylsucrose containing food for specified health uses is not so remarkable on the usual life.

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