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Dow launches ingredient for reduced fat absorption 11-07-08
Caroline Scott-Thomas
Dow introduced a new weight management ingredient at Health Ingredients
Europe this week, which it claims has been shown to block the absorption of
saturated and trans-fats in pre-clinical trials.
Satisfit is an emulsifier derived from plant-based cellulose which the company
says has been shown to reduce weight gain and fatty liver deposits in very high
fat diets fed to hamsters.
It has been developed by the Dow Chemical Company in collaboration with the
Agricultural Research Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the
company says it is now looking for research development partners to take
Satisfit into clinical trials on people.
Dow Wolff’s global food marketing manager Stephanie Lynch told
BakeryandSnacks.com: “This is not about preventing weight gain, but reducing it.
Of course, if you eat too much over a period of time, you will still gain
weight, but Satisfit pulls fat through the body, reducing the amount that gets
absorbed. Everybody is talking about satiety but this really addresses reducing
weight gain.”
Applications
Satisfit is a soluble, non-fermentable powder which can be mixed with
seasonings, citric acid or bakery fats in order to introduce it into a product.
The company says it may also extend the shelf-life of foods.
Potential applications include biscuits, snack bars, ready meals and beverages.
Lynch said: “The challenge has been in making it easy to formulate and we wanted
to achieve that before introducing it…Mixing it with baking fats would be an
excellent way to introduce it into bakery products.”
Fast food trials
The Satisfit trials conducted to date have focused on hamsters fed a diet of
hamburgers, fries and pound cake and the researchers claim that when Satisfit
was incorporated, the animals gained seven per cent less weight than those on a
control diet.
The results have not yet been published in a journal and the methodology and
data have not been seen by BakeryandSnacks.com. Ongoing research – entitled
Processing and Biotechnological Improvement of Foods to Prevent Obesity Related
and Other Degenerative Diseases – is headed by Wally Yokoyama, research chemist
at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. It is due to be completed in June
2009.
“Satisfit is available for formulation but we are still waiting for clinical
trials to validate its benefits,” said Lynch. “We don’t yet know whether it has
a delayed effect, for example. If someone eats a cereal bar [containing Satisfit]
in the morning, we don’t know whether that will reduce the absorption of fat
consumed at lunch. We need to carry out further tests to look at that, but the
USDA is helping to validate it through animal research.”
Comments:
Yikes! Warm up the diapers. That; what happened last time!
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