Polysaccharide Stachyose Powder
- Naturally sourced from STACHYS RIEDERI ROOT (Chinese artichokes)
- 22% sweetness of sucrose
- High moisture retention andhygroscopicity, no reduction
- High stability and will notdecompose at 100'C
- No odor, slightly sweet
Natural Stachyose powder, an oligosaccharide, modulates the gut microbiota composition in animals.
Stachyose improves beta diversity and increases the concentration of short-chain fatty acid (SCFAs), mainly acetic acid and butyric acid. Stachyose is found to promote the relative abundance of Bifidobacteria, Faecalibacterium, Lactobacillus, and Prevotella genera in the gut microbiota. Besides, stachyose significantly reduces the relative abundance of Bacteroides and Escherichia-Shigella genera. The findings show that stachyose increases beneficial microbiota, therefore, it is a useful prebiotic which modulates the composition of the gut microbiota.
The Physicochemical Properties of Stachyose:
1.Stachyose is white powder in appearance and tastes fresh without peculiar smell,
2.Stachyose sweetness is 22% of sucrose sweetness,
3.It is easily soluble in water with a solubility of 130g(20ºC),it is different from organic solvents such as ether and ethanol,
4.The moisture retention and hygroscopicity are less than sucrose,but higher than high fructose syrup,
5.The osmotic pressure is almost the same with sucrose,
6.The melting point is 101ºC,the crystallization water is lost after vacuum heating to 115ºC,and the melting point of anhydrous stachyose is 167ºC~170ºC,
7.Stachyose has no reducibility.
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