Beghin Meiji - Actilight – Sweet Soluble Pre-Biotic Fibre

Actilight® is a sweet soluble fibre with pre-biotic properties. This ingredient – composed of Short Chain Fructo-OligoSaccharides (SCFOS) – is being used in many food products for consumers' health and well-being. Actilight allows you to improve your nutritional and health profile by adding fibres, replacing sugars, reducing caloric value, lowering your glycaemic index and contributing to a rebalance of the intestinal microflora.

SUGAR-REDUCING SWEET SOLUBLE FIBRE

Actilight is an ideal sugar substitute, with a caloric value of 1.5kcal/g and a sweetening power of 30% compared to sucrose. For example, the replacement of 45% of the sucrose content in chocolate mousse with Actilight allows you to design a sugar-reduced product with no difference in texture and sensory value.

The total substitution of sucrose in a cake with Actilight was also successful, with no difference in firmness, elasticity, colour or taste profile, allowing a sugar-free claim.

Actilight is not digested in the small intestine and therefore does not increase blood glucose and insulin. This makes Actilight perfectly suitable for diabetics' foods. In many applications, the use of Maltilite® maltitol syrups together with Actilight to replace part or all of the sugar is recommended.

FIBRE-ENRICHING DIETARY SOLUBLE FIBRE

Actilight is a dietary soluble fibre containing 95% of non-digestible fibre. It is an instant soluble fibre of vegetal origin with a taste profile similar to sucrose. Actilight can be easily incorporated in liquid and dry foodstuffs allowing nutrition claims such as 'source of fibre' and 'high in fibre' with no process modification.

Actilight even improves the mouth-feel and flavours profile. For example, the incorporation of 6% of Actilight in breakfast cereals permits a 'high in fibre' claim along with an enhancement in the cereals' flavours and limited Maillard reaction.

BIFIDO-ACTIVE FIBRE

The prebiotic effect of Actilight has been demonstrated by more than 150 clinical studies worldwide. This prebiotic effect consists of bringing specific changes in the composition and / or activity of the digestive microflora in order to confer health and well-being benefits. Active enough to stimulate the growth of bifidobacteria at 2.5g per day during seven days of supplementation, Actilight is one of the most efficient pre-biotic fibres.

Clinical studies have clearly shown that Actilight improves the digestive comfort. After six weeks of consumption of Actilight, the intensity of abdominal pain significantly decreases. 96% of the subjects observed a significant improvement of digestive comfort and 83% confirmed a better well-being in their daily activities.

Many studies have proven a positive effect on the immune system with the reinforcement of the intestinal barrier effect and the reduction of potentially pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract. Enhancement of the bio-availability of calcium and magnesium has also been demonstrated. Moreover, Actilight was shown to enhance the absorption of isoflavones from the diet and to improve bone density by increasing their bio-availability.

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL SWEET SOLUBLE FIBRE

Actilight is a non viscous and easy-to-use ingredient. Indeed, its technological properties are similar to sucrose and it has a nice and clean sweet taste. It also enhances aromas and masks off-flavours coming from intense sweeteners.

Actilight is a first choice, multi-functional ingredient dedicated to bring nutritional and health values to a large variety of foodstuffs. Actilight is the favourite ingredient for food technologists to use when they are designing innovative functional foods.

A NATURAL INGREDIENT SWEET SOLUBLE FIBRE

Actilight is produced from beet sugar using a bio-synthesis process providing consistent characteristics and reliable functionalities. It contains the shortest chains of fructo-oligosaccharides available in nature. These soluble fibres are naturally present in many plant species, such as onion, artichoke and bananas.

Actilight is an ingredient and not an additive. It is labelled on the ingredient list as "fructo-oligosaccharides" or "oligofructose." Actilight is available in powder and liquid form, with fibre content ranging from 55% to 95%.