Fructooligosaccharides cf disaccharides

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Alison Morton wrote:

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> sorry to piggy back on your query, but can anyone explain to me the

> difference between fructo-oligosaccharides (as in Lambert's

> 'Eliminex'

> granules) and the semi-synthetic disaccharides in Lactulose?

Not an explanation but a guess from their names...

Fructo-oligosaccharides: a few-sugar-chain/molecule preparation sourced

from fruit.

Semi-synthetic disaccharides: two-sugar-chain/molecule preparation made

semi-synthetically.

so perhaps the lambert's is non-synthetic/'natural' compared with

lactulose? The sugar-chains in 'eliminex' are possibly longer than those

in lactulose?

Maybe ask the makers of each to explain the difference/what makes their

product what it is?

Curious )

Eirwen,

Enfield.

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Isn't inulin a fructo ologosaccharide? Available in jerusalem

artichokes (could be the reason these make you fart a lot. Anyway they

put it in because it is reputedly a very good substrate for the growth

of those good bugs

Sally

> Alison Morton wrote:

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>> [snip curcuma]

>> sorry to piggy back on your query, but can anyone explain to me the

>> difference between fructo-oligosaccharides (as in Lambert's

>> 'Eliminex'

>> granules) and the semi-synthetic disaccharides in Lactulose?

>

> Not an explanation but a guess from their names...

>

> Fructo-oligosaccharides: a few-sugar-chain/molecule preparation sourced

> from fruit.

> Semi-synthetic disaccharides: two-sugar-chain/molecule preparation made

> semi-synthetically.

>

> so perhaps the lambert's is non-synthetic/'natural' compared with

> lactulose? The sugar-chains in 'eliminex' are possibly longer than

> those

> in lactulose?

>

> Maybe ask the makers of each to explain the difference/what makes their

> product what it is?

>

> Curious )

>

> Eirwen,

> Enfield.

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> Graham White, MNIMH

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Dear All,

a disaccharides is a sugar made of just two units of simple sugars such as

glucose, fructose, lactose etc.

So it is a quite small molecule. An oligosaccharide is a quite bigger stuff,

actually in the order of 50 units like those that you can find in fruits and

onions. The fructo-oligosaccharides often have prebiotic action and are

methabolized by our intestinal flora to the important short chain fatty

acids (SCFA), which have a healthy action on our intestinal mucosa and

flora.

The semi-synthetic should means certainly that to make the final molecule

thay use a molecule of natural origin that then has been slightly changed in

the lab., like tamoxifen for instance. It is a quite popular approach in

these days.

Hope to be some help

Lugli, MCCP

dott.Industrial Chemistry, BSc Phytotherapy

Fructooligosaccharides cf disaccharides

> Alison Morton wrote:

> >

> >[snip curcuma]

> > sorry to piggy back on your query, but can anyone explain to me the

> > difference between fructo-oligosaccharides (as in Lambert's

> > 'Eliminex'

> > granules) and the semi-synthetic disaccharides in Lactulose?

>

> Not an explanation but a guess from their names...

>

> Fructo-oligosaccharides: a few-sugar-chain/molecule preparation sourced

> from fruit.

> Semi-synthetic disaccharides: two-sugar-chain/molecule preparation made

> semi-synthetically.

>

> so perhaps the lambert's is non-synthetic/'natural' compared with

> lactulose? The sugar-chains in 'eliminex' are possibly longer than those

> in lactulose?

>

> Maybe ask the makers of each to explain the difference/what makes their

> product what it is?

>

> Curious )

>

> Eirwen,

> Enfield.

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> List Owner

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> Graham White, MNIMH

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[Guest guest]

Just a thought, but given what has said and the name of the Lactulose

product; Lactulose a milk based product and therefore likely to encourage

diarrhear in those sensitive to milk and lactose.

That in itself would be enough for me personally to go with the plant based

stuff as so many people are affeceted by lactose.

Hannah Barton MNIMH

Mid Devon.