But you wouldn’t know that from the FDA-approved food labels, which don’t distinguish between dietary and functional fiber. The FDA allows polydextrose to be labeled as a dietary fiber, just ...

Tate & Lyle proposed that because polydextrose arrived at the colon undigested, its partial fermentation there would increase bacterial mass and stool bulk. The NDA was unimpressed and noted similarly ...

Astbury and her team fed the 21 participants (12 men and 9 women) a ‘pre-load’ chocolate milk drink containing equal energy loads but varying levels of DuPont Danisco’s Litesse Ultra polydextrose ...

DuPont says its Danisco Litesse-brand polydextrose could have a role in appetite control, after researchers at the Functional Food Centre of Oxford Brookes University in the UK published a study ...

Polydextrose is well tolerated at a consumption level of up to 90g a day – which is far higher than the average daily intake of 25-38g that Health Canada recommends, said Bond.