Sweetener Composition with D-psicose and Maltodextrin for Blood Glucose Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
D-psicose, a low-calorie sweetener effective in preventing and alleviating diabetes, fails to provide adequate sweetness when used alone, leading to potential side effects in diabetic patients due to excessive inhibition of sugar absorption, and combining it with other sugars can cause an excessive decrease in blood glucose levels.
Innovation Solution
A sweetener composition combining D-psicose with digestion-resistant maltodextrin and rebaudioside A, which allows for slow glucose digestion and gradual blood glucose elevation, preventing hyperglycemic symptoms while avoiding hypoglycemic symptoms by providing sugars slowly and consistently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If D-psicose is used alone as a sweetener, then calorie intake is reduced and sugar absorption is inhibited, but sweetness is insufficient and blood glucose levels may drop excessively in diabetic patients
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines D-psicose with rebaudioside A (a high-intensity sweetener) and slowly digestible starch in specific proportions. This merging of different sweetening agents achieves adequate sweetness through rebaudioside A while D-psicose provides calorie reduction and sugar absorption inhibition, resolving the contradiction between calorie reduction and sweetness adequacy
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a composite sweetener formulation containing multiple components (D-psicose, rebaudioside A, slowly digestible starch) with specific weight ratios. This composite approach allows each component to contribute its unique properties: rebaudioside A provides intense sweetness, D-psicose reduces calories and inhibits sugar absorption, and slowly digestible starch provides sustained glucose release, collectively resolving the contradiction
2Object-generated harmful factors
If D-psicose is used alone as a sweetener, then sugar absorption is inhibited, but blood glucose levels may drop excessively causing hypoglycemic symptoms in diabetic patients
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates slowly digestible starch that breaks down gradually to provide sustained glucose release. This preliminary anti-action counterbalances the sugar absorption inhibition effect of D-psicose, ensuring that blood glucose levels do not drop excessively and preventing hypoglycemic symptoms in diabetic patients
Solution Approach 2:
The slowly digestible starch acts as an intermediary component that modulates the effect of D-psicose on blood glucose. It provides a controlled, gradual release of glucose that mediates between the sugar absorption inhibition (beneficial effect) and prevents excessive blood glucose drops (harmful effect), resolving the contradiction
3Reliability
If the amount of D-psicose is increased to achieve adequate sweetness, then sweetness is improved, but excessive thick feeling is provided to foods causing deterioration in texture
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges D-psicose with rebaudioside A, which provides high-intensity sweetness in small amounts. This combination allows adequate sweetness to be achieved without using excessive amounts of D-psicose, thereby avoiding the thick feeling and texture deterioration that would result from high D-psicose concentrations
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The combination provides a sweetener with improved sweetness and reduced calorie intake, effectively managing blood glucose levels by preventing sharp increases and decreases, thus offering a safer alternative for diabetic patients.
Implementation Method 1
D-psicose is also known to have efficacy to prevent and treat diabetes since D-psicose is able to inhibit the absorption of sugars such as glucose, D-fructose and the like
Implementation Method 2
digestion-resistant maltodextrin is a class of dietary fiber (polysaccharides)... the digestion-resistant maltodextrin is a dietary fiber which is indigestible in the human body
Implementation Method 3
allows for slow glucose digestion and gradual blood glucose elevation, preventing hyperglycemic symptoms while avoiding hypoglycemic symptoms by providing sugars slowly and consistently
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a sweetener composition for alleviating diabetes, containing psicose and a slowly digestible or digestion-resistant polysaccharide as active ingredients, wherein diabetes alleviating effects and the quality of sweetness are enhanced.