{"id":1036,"date":"2020-08-21T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victa.it\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2020-07-23T15:50:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:50:41","slug":"vegetal-fibers-for-a-healthy-microbiota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/vegetal-fibers-for-a-healthy-microbiota\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetal fibers for a healthy microbiota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic influenced the general opinion on <strong>vegetal fibers<\/strong> even more then ever.<br \/>\nIt seems these functional ingredients, in the spotlight since a long time, will be able to benefit from this historic moment for a new growth.<\/p>\n<p>Especially in these last few months, the concern on health and well-being among consumers is greater higher than ever.<br \/>\nIn particular, people focus on the <strong>microbiota role<\/strong>, whose balance is fundamental for well being.<br \/>\nThis new \u201cmega trend\u201d comes up beside the \u201cclassical\u201d ones of these last few years (\u201cclean label\u201d, sugar reduction, weight management,\u2026).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prebiotics<\/strong>, especially inulin and FOS from chicory roots, are fundamental for a healthy microbiota.<br \/>\nAccording to the International Scientific Association for Pro- and Prebiotics (ISAPP), these fibers are proven to be the only plant-based prebiotics with functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization recommends a daily intake of at least 25 gr of fibers, but the Western diet is far from this target.<br \/>\nNowadays the consumers are more aware of diet recommendations and despite their low expense budget, they look for functional foods, rich in nutrients but low in calories.<\/p>\n<p>While this is a real challenge for producers, fibers seem to be the perfect ingredient to achieve this goal.<br \/>\nThey are more and more popular in applications such as breakfast cereals, bars, pasta and dairy products, but also the beverage sector is interested in fibers: the average consumer looks for drinks with particular benefits, such as immunostimolant properties.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their structure, vegetal fibers can be widely used also in the \u201cmeat analogue\u201d and cheese alternatives. It is the case of the pea fibers.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgian company <strong>Cosucra<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosucra.com\/\">https:\/\/www.cosucra.com\/<\/a>offers<strong> inulin and oligofructose from chicory roots<\/strong>, but also <strong>pea functional fibers<\/strong>.<br \/>\nWe are at your best disposal for more information about the <strong>Fibruline\u2122, Fibrulose\u2122 <\/strong>and <strong>Swelite\u2122 <\/strong>range!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Covid-19 pandemic influenced the general opinion on vegetal fibers even more then ever. It seems these functional ingredients, in the spotlight since a long time, will be able to benefit from this historic moment for a new growth. Especially in these last few months, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/vegetal-fibers-for-a-healthy-microbiota\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037,"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions\/1037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victa.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}