Drug – bio-affecting and body treating compositions – Preparations characterized by special physical form – Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical
Patent
1989-12-06
1992-06-30
Page, Thurman K.
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions
Preparations characterized by special physical form
Food or edible as carrier for pharmaceutical
4241951, 424441, 424489, 424499, 426531, 426618, 426658, 514777, 514892, A61K 4726, A23L 100, A23L 10524
Patent
active
051261430
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to bowel movement-improving food products. More particularly, it is concerned with bowel movement-improving food products comprising hardly water-soluble dietary fibers and readily water-soluble dietary fibers at a specific ratio.
The food products of the invention are useful for preventing and treating constipation of both proctosenous and colonic types.
BACKGROUND ART
In recent years a variety of food products in which dietary fibers effective for improving bowel movements and preventing adult diseases are incorporated are available on the market. The dietary fibers incorporated in such food products are mainly composed of hardly water-soluble dietary fibers. Hardly water-soluble dietary fibers mostly pass through the digestive tracts without being digested and absorbed, inducing increased amount of stools, so that the rectum is physically stimulated to increase a desire to defecate and the stools are softened to improve bowel movement. They are therefore effective in proctosenous constipation.
Constipation, however, is frequently of mixed type of proctosenous and colonic ones. For the colonic type of constipation (atonic) with reduced peristalsis, readily water-soluble fibers are more effective, because they are hydrolyzed in the lower digestive tracts by intestinal microorganisms and the hydrolysis products, organic acids, activate peristalsis of digestive tracts thereby accelerating defecation although they are not hydrolyzed by human digestive enzymes.
Therefore, it is desirable to take both of the hardly water-soluble dietary fibers and the readily water-soluble dietary fibers for effectively preventing or curing constipation.
Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open-to-Public No. 262572/1985 discloses food products comprising hardly water-soluble dietary fibers coated with readily water-soluble dietary fibers. However, because of low contents of the readily water-soluble fibers in such food products, they are not effective in colonic constipation.
Approximately two third of the fecal amount is water and the water content is especially dependent upon undigested food, especially the content of dietary fibers. Therefore, ingestion of the hardly water-soluble dietary fibers of high water-retention more effectively increases the amount and water content of stools.
DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention, there are provided bowel movement-improving food products as set forth below.
1) A bowel movement-improving food product containing 10-50% by weight of dietary fibers based upon the whole product wherein said dietary fibers comprises hardly water-soluble dietary fibers and readily water-soluble dietary fibers, 2-30 parts by weight of the readily water-soluble dietary fibers are contained per part by weight of the hardly water-soluble dietary fibers and 10% by weight or more of the hardly water-soluble dietary fibers is hemicellulose.
2) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the hemicellulose is a dietary fiber obtained from corn, cabbage or carrot.
3) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the readily water-soluble dietary fibers are polysaccharide capable of being hydrolyzed by human intestinal microorganisms.
4) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 3 wherein the polysaccharide is a combination of one or more members selected from the group consisting of polydextrose, pullulan and gum arabic and one or more members selected from the group consisting of pectin, guar gum, sodium alginate, carrageenan, glucomannan, Locust bean gum, tamarind gum and gum tragacanth.
5) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the product is in flake form.
6) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the product is in stew form.
7) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the product is in rice gruel form.
8) A bowel movement-improving food product according to item 1 wherein the product is in wa
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Gotoh Takuji
Nakashima Hiroshi
Page Thurman K.
Spear James M.
Terumo Kabushiki Kaisha
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