SimplyThick, LLC的动态

To my health nerds out there, today we’re going to answer “how does SimplyThick affect the gut microbiome?” Short answer - The gums and thickener doesn't really break down. They pass through the body as soluble fiber. So it helps the gut microbiome, because it's considered a prebiotic fiber. It was up until recently, that here in the United States, we couldn’t claim gums as soluble fiber. Even though they have been recognized as fiber sources globally for decades, the FDA decided to make a silly rule on what food fiber is, so we couldn't claim this fact in the US. Let me explain more - A few years back there were a plethora of different companies (ingredients) that were claiming they were food fiber and grabbing onto the health benefits of food fibers. The FDA came back and said, “You know what, we're going to say that these seven fiber types are the only ones you can call fiber on a food label, and the only ones you can use in your fiber calculations.” Gum acacia and xanthan gum, both ingredients in SimplyThick, did not make the list. If you look around the world, both of them were considered fiber, but in the US, we couldn't label it as having fiber or fiber content. Long story short, the gum acacia industry got together as a group and funded studies to present as evidence to the FDA that gum acacia is, in fact, what everyone else in the world knew: a source of dietary fiber. With the recent FDA approval, we are in the process of changing the labels on our products to include fiber as a part of our nutritional panel. (But we still can't claim the xanthan gum as a fiber source in the US)