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A More Plant-Based Diet Without Stomach Troubles: Getting Rid of FODMAPs With Enzymes

posted by janrinok on Thursday April 16 2020, @01:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the parp-belch dept.

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A more plant-based diet without stomach troubles: Getting rid of FODMAPs with enzymes:

A plant-based diet is a good choice for both climate and health. However, many plant-based products, especially legumes, contain FODMAP compounds that are poorly digestible and cause unpleasant intestinal symptoms. A study by VTT and Finnish companies succeeded in breaking down FODMAPs with enzymes and producing new, stomach-friendly plant-based food products.

FODMAPs are short-chain carbohydrate molecules that are poorly absorbed in the human small intestine. These non-absorbed compounds move along to the large intestine, where intestinal microbes feed on them. This results in the production of gases that causes symptoms especially for those suffering from intestinal disorders, but also for many others. These problems are relatively common, as it has been estimated that the irritable bowel syndrome alone affects between 10% and 20% of the population.

Many foods containing FODMAPs are in themselves healthy and good sources of fibre, nutrients and vegetable proteins. However, those suffering from symptoms will often avoid these foods and miss out on their health benefits.

In a study funded by VTT, Gold&Green Foods, Raisio, Roal and Valio, VTT focused on two key FODMAP compounds: galactan and fructan. Galactan is abundant in, for example, legumes, while fructan is found in many cereals, among other things.

[...] "The study showed that enzymes also work under a variety of conditions and in different food processes. This is interesting new information especially for legumes, as there are currently no similar legume-based foods suitable for the FODMAP diet on the market," says Nyyssölä.

"The results are most likely to be utilised next in the development of new food items, but also in academic research in order to verify the effects on intestinal symptoms with certainty," he continues.

Journal Reference:

Antti Nyyssölä, Simo Ellilä, Emilia Nordlund, Kaisa Poutanen. Reduction of FODMAP content by bioprocessing. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2020; 99: 257 DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2020.03.004

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @02:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @02:19PM (#983594)

    Instead of engineering more specialized things so that we precious over-eating non-excercising menial job-doing debt-laden depressed human beings don't get stomach ache after eating 5 cheap-ass burgers, how about we try to smarten the fuck up and stop doing useless shit? Hm?

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 16 2020, @03:11PM (#983618)

    smarten the fuck up and stop doing useless shit

    Like posting barely-comprehensible rants on the internet that are, at best, vaguely reminiscent of the topic at hand?

  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday April 16 2020, @03:20PM (1 child)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Thursday April 16 2020, @03:20PM (#983624) Journal

    You ever read the book Bullshit Jobs?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @07:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 17 2020, @07:45AM (#984034)

      The author contends that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and, as he describes, five types of entirely pointless jobs:

            1) flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants
            2) goons, who oppose other goons hired by other companies, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists
            3) duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff
                who calm passengers whose bags don't arrive
            4) box tickers, who use paperwork or gestures as a proxy for action, e.g., performance managers, in-house magazine journalists, leisure coordinators
            5) taskmasters, who manage—or create extra work for—those who don't need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals[2][1]