Nutritional studies on maltitol. Part 1: Acceptability, energetic yield, effects on growth and blood biochemical parameters.
Maltitol is a disaccharide molecule with special physico-chemical characteristics due to a glycosidic bond which is not easily split by the natural disaccharidases. The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of a prolonged feeding with maltitol on growing rats. Acceptability, caloric yield, intestinal absorption and metabolic effects have been determined.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects; D001772:Blood Cell Count; D001806:Blood Urea Nitrogen; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D004435:Eating / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D008320:Maltose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D013402:Sugar Alcohols / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013549:Sweetening Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*
D013402:Sugar Alcohols; D013549:Sweetening Agents; D008320:Maltose; C010745:maltitol