It is now known that many bowel irritation symptoms and illnesses are closely related to the living and eating habits common in modern society. On the other hand, fitness and health are also part of our present day lifestyles. Health has therefore more than simple medicinal aspects. Our mobility and our enjoyment of travel, sport etc. depends on personal well-being, for which we must each play our part.
Food, metabolism and the immune system must be seen as an interactive process. If we can balance our food and digestion with this background in mind, we can contribute to stabilising health.
Pre-biotic effect
The pre-biotic effect of lactulose can play its part not only in therapy but also as a sensible preventive agent in order to maintain the health of the immune system, the gastro-intestinal tract and hence to underpin and enhance general well-being.
In the future, lactulose will therefore be increasingly added to foods as a nutritional supplement because of its preventive actions.
The food design trend
The trend in the food industry is moving towards clearly defined ingredients, put together according to nutritional/scientific food design specifications as a sensible nutrition supplement. Obviously, the safety of the product in both its effect and its interaction are of primary importance. Lactulose has a very high safety profile even over long ingestion periods.
Food design is feasible for individual target groups and market niches:
For children and young people of various ages, for expectant and breast-feeding mothers, for high-performance sportsmen and women and more cerebral workers as well as for senior citizens: each with their specific and special requirements.
The ability to positively influence the digestive and immune systems makes lactulose a key player in food design, as an agent between nutrition and health.
Health Care needs health food
In food production, health aspects are gaining in importance. Today the gastrointestinal tract has been identified as a central organ of the immune system, and consequently food research and production have gained more significance.
Growing health awareness and the desire and the will for illness prevention are broad-based social movements.
The prevention of illnesses in the gastrointestinal tract is the field in which lactulose plays an outstanding role: in its liquid form it can be easily and unproblematically added to many food to promote overall health and quality of life.
Lactulose in the food industry
Following the successful introduction of minerals, electrolytes and vitamins as nutritional supplements in the production of health food, lactulose, with its high safety profile and its health-promoting pre-biotic effects can also now become a very interesting product for the industry.
