Sentences with phrase «escapes digestion in the small intestine»

It's a type of starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine.

These foods are rich in «prebiotic» fiber, or dietary fiber that escapes digestion in the small intestine but is fermented by the types of bacteria you want to have hanging around in your colon.

This carbohydrate escapes digestion in the small intestine and is utilized in the large intestine to benefit the good bacteria located in the colon.

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In particular, the SME of a completely and rapidly digestible breakfast containing amylopectin starch with or without added the fermentable disaccharide lactulose was compared with that of a slowly digestible breakfast meal containing high - amylose starch, in which, besides being slowly digested, some of the starch would escape small - intestine digestion and be fermented in the coloIn particular, the SME of a completely and rapidly digestible breakfast containing amylopectin starch with or without added the fermentable disaccharide lactulose was compared with that of a slowly digestible breakfast meal containing high - amylose starch, in which, besides being slowly digested, some of the starch would escape small - intestine digestion and be fermented in the coloin which, besides being slowly digested, some of the starch would escape small - intestine digestion and be fermented in the coloin the colon.

Once it was discovered that the human digestive system has a hard time breaking down these oligosaccharides, and over 90 percent escape digestion (in the stomach and small intestine) until they reach the colon where they benefit the probiotics, the race was on to produce increasing amounts of inulin in particula for the «functional food» industry.