Stachyose
Botanical Resource: Stachys Floridana Schuttl et Benth.
Properties:White fine powder.
Specification:70%,80%,95% HPLC
Brief Introduction: Stachyose is an oligosaccharide (tetrasaccharide) consisting of two D-galactoseunits, one D-glucoseunit, and one D-fructose unit sequentially linked. Its molecular weight is 666.6 g/mol. Stachyose is naturally found in many vegetables (e.g. green beans, soybeans and other beans) and plants
Stachyose is less sweet than sucrose, with about 28% on a weight basis. It is mainly used as a bulk sweetener or for its functional oligosaccharide property. Stachyose is not completely digestible by humans and deliver 1.5 to 2.4 kcal/g (6 to 10 kJ/g).
Stachyose is able to get to the areas of your body that need it most
Stachyose is a naturally occurring compound - present in peas and beans (especially soya beans) - which encourages the growth of friendly bacteria1.
When ingested, it is able to pass through your digestive tract more or less unabsorbed - allowing it to reach your large bowel where it can get to work.
Scientists at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology in Beijing have found that only 3.82 per cent of stachyose is absorbed, and this occurs mainly in the stomach (25 per cent of total absorption) and in the small bowel2.
The residue stays in the large bowel for several hours where friendly bacteria break it down and absorb its nourishing components. Within a few hours their numbers start to increase and over time, the bowel is returned to a healthy state.
As a result of this, your general health also begins to benefit and improve, making it easier for your immune system to fight infections such as thrush.
Stachyose helps render infectious microbes harmless
Researchers from the Department of Microbiology, at the University of Alabama, have found that certain infective bacteria are unable to grow in the presence of stachyose. They used Streptococcus pneumoniae (bacteria which cause pneumonia) and altered their genes to make them as resistant to destruction as possible. However, despite this, these highly infective microbes were found to lose their ability to multiply in the presence of stachyose3.