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Eat Chocolate While Improving Gut Flora

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Well, maybe...
quote: Tagatose chocolate has low GI 13/08/2004 - Food makers will be encouraged to use a low-calorie sweetener supplied by Danish ingredients firm Arla Food Ingredients with a new study showing a chocolate bar made with the prebiotic ingredient is very low in glycaemic load (GL) and glycaemic index (GI), increasingly used by food makers as an indicator to consumers concerned about carbohydrate control.
Full article Tagatose is a naturally occuring prebiotic used as a food sweetener. It also has been shown to increase beneficial lactobacillus bacteria and stimulate the production of the short-chain fatty acid butyrate (used by colon cells for energy and also used to treat ulcerative colitis). More about Tagatose...
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Cool!I need new foods,where is this chocolate?
Cool!I need new foods,where is this chocolate?
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