Digestive health

Clear from this table is that juice processing can steal away nutrients and food value of natural whole fruits. Often such juices also must be sweetened with excessive sugar or other common fruit juices to offset their natural acidity and sourness. Flavor may benefit from these procedures, but nutrient content suffers. Especially detrimental is that juice processing eliminates the digestive health value of the fruit s natural fiber content—the two kinds of dietary fiber providing many valuable health benefits for you. 

By eating foods rich in these prebiotics, you also support your natural bacteria that promote digestive health. Take better care of your digestive health by increasing the amounts of prebiotic-rich foods such as superfruits in your diet. 

Promotes benefits of high-fiber fruits and prebiotic fiber for general digestive health... 

III. DIETARY FIBER IN SEAWEED HELPS TO AMELIORATE DIGESTIVE HEALTH... 

In addition to the above discussed nutrients, diverse amoimt of phenolic molecules has been identified from seaweed and is classified imder different groups of phytochemicals. Those molecules virtually do not play the roles of nutrients and proven to have different bioactive properties associated with enhancing physical fitness to refrain from diseases or to exert therapeutic effects against certain illnesses. However, the medicinal effects of such molecules are not discussed in this chapter. Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular dieses have a strong relationship with dietary habits and nutritional profiles of the food. Therefore, next few sections of this chapter address the nutrition-related several health effects of seaweed fiber, other than previously mentioned, and its contribution to enhance digestive health. 

Taking all the above discussed dietary functions of seaweed into consideration, it can be concluded that seaweed is a potential food to be added to the diet to enhance the hmnan nutrition and digestive health. 

Enhance detoxification of undesirable Chemically unstable and offensive compounds support maintenance of odor heart, inunune, and digestive health... 

Classified according to health claims made on the product, digestive health has been the most used claim for new products (Fig. 80.2) [56]. 

Concerning claims, digestive health is not the top claim in the USA, this honor belonging to cardiovascular health. On the opposite side, cardiovascular health claims are quite reduced in Japan (less than 10 % of the new functional foods launches). In the UK, cardiovascular health claims have represented a 20 % of the 530 new products between 2005 and 2009 [58]. 

Nutraingredients US. Digestive health products are No.l functional food, global study. (En linia) 01 Sep 2009. http //www.nutraingredients-usa.com/Consumer-Trends/Digestive-health-products-are-No. 1 -functional-food-global-study... 

Report of the Digestive Health Initiative International Update Conference on Helicobacter pylori, February 1997. Presented at Digestive Disease Week, Washington, DC, May 1997. 

Soltan MA (2009) Effect of essential oils supplementation on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, health condition of Holstein male calves during pre- and post-weaning periods. Peik J... 

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