Americans eat too much sugar. Food tech company Zya is developing a substance to add to sweet foods that can convert some of that sugar into fiber in the digestive system.
We all know that too much sugar is bad for us. It can lead to weight gain, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. But it’s hard to avoid. In the US, three-quarters of the packaged food sold in supermarkets has sugar added to it when it’s processed or prepared. Even foods that consumers assume are healthy—yogurt, for one—are often packed with sugar. The average American adult consumes two to three times the recommended amount of added sugar every day.
In addition to scaling up its production, Zya has modified the enzyme to improve its stability and performance in the GI tract. In lab experiments, researchers added the enzyme to table sugar in models of the human gut, and also tested real food products with the enzyme in these systems. They found that the enzyme could convert up to 30 percent of the sugar present into fiber. They also mixed the enzyme with food and fed it to pigs, which have digestive tracts similar to humans.
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