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The digestion process of the sugar alcohol isomalt in the intestinal tract of the pig

2. Studies with administration of isomalt as a sweet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

E. J. Van Weerden  and
J. Huisman
E. J. Van Weerden
Affiliation:
TNO-Institute qf Animal Nutrition and Physiology (ILOB), PO Box 15, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
J. Huisman
Affiliation:
TNO-Institute qf Animal Nutrition and Physiology (ILOB), PO Box 15, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
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In a study with ten pigs of 60–70 kg live weight, provided with a re-entrant cannula at the end of the ileum, and sixteen intact, non-cannulated pigs, the digestion and absorption of a dietary dose of 100 g isomalt/kg, and isomalt given between the meals as a ‘sweet’on the basis of 50 and 100 g/kg feed consumption, were examined. In all three isomalt treatments slightly less than 0.40 of the isomalt consumed was digested in the small intestine when the calculations were based on ileal sugar passage. However, when basing the calculations on energy contents of ileal chyme, only approximately 0.10 was digested in the small intestine. The bacterial fermentation of the isomalt flowing into the large intestine was indicated by a decreased faecal energy digestibility and a slight reduction in faecal dry matter and nitrogen digestibility. The retention of the minerals sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium and phosphorus was not influenced to any measurable extent when isomalt was fed.

Keywords

IsomaltSugar digestionDisaccharide alcoholsPigs
Type
Degestion of Sugar Alcohols
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , March 1993 , pp. 467 - 479
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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