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Notification Detail :: G/TBT/N/NZL/1

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Title

Application A277 : Inulin And Fructooligosaccharide As Dietary Fibre (56 Pages, in English only)

Objective

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Inulin and Fructooligosaccharide as Dietary Fibre

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Keywords

Food standards; Labelling; Nutrition information

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Description

It is a proposal to amend standard A1 to permit the declaration of inulin and fructooliogosaccharides (FOS) as dietary fibre on food labels;  adopt an analytical method for the determination of inulin and FOS;  and amend the calculation of carbohydrate by difference by including dietary fibre in the range of macronutrients deducted from 100.  It will also include a revised definition of dietary fibre for labelling purposes. The question of whether fructan carbohydrate such as inulin should be considered as dietary fibre is central to this proposal.  Any definition of dietary fibre should encompass elements of origin, chemistry, and physiological effect.  The definition proposed is  “that fraction of the edible part of plants or their extracts, or analogous carbohydrates that are resistant to digestion in the human small intestine, usually with complete or partial fermentation in the large intestine.  The term includes polysaccharides, oligosaccharides (DP>2) and lignins.  Dietary fibre promotes one or more of these beneficial physiological effects: laxation, reduction in blood cholesterol and/or modulation of blood glucose”.

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