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The University of Murcia (UMU) has developed a range of healthy juices and vegetable drinks (smoothies, nectars and fruit drinks) with low sugar content and glycemic impact (blood glucose peaks consumers).

The products obtained for the Murcian company AMC, which has collaborated in the elaboration process, manage to maintain or exceed the content of vitamins, fiber and antioxidant phytochemicals respect to natural fruits and vegetables used as raw materials.

The company AMC was marked as objective to offer the market a new range of juices and vegetable drinks to respond to consumer demand exclusive products and increasingly healthy.

To achieve this end, the group of Food Biotechnology UMU studied which sweeteners from natural sources could reduce the glycemic impact, while juices and drinks with ingredients that provided fiber enriched in order to increase the positive effect on glycemia consumer.

Also, it has succeeded in manufacturing processes do not adversely affect the presence of bioactive compounds, being able to say that "their content in new products is not significantly reduced from the original raw materials (fruits and vegetables), and is not not affected by oxidative degradation or processes, "says professor Fulgencio Marín Iniesta, principal investigator of the group.

For example, "the nectar of orange, cranberry and lemonade with steviol glycosides (extracted from the Stevia plant), accompanied by certain dietary fiber, triggers a slow and gradual rise in blood glucose, with a peak below generated by conventional nectars , which is a very positive result, as this nectar intake will cause the pancreas to release insulin deforms more gradual and less harmful to health, since this body is' tired 'less'.

In addition, "the average values ​​of blood glucose at two hours are very similar to the values ​​obtained fasting, not producing hypoglycemia," adds Professor Marin Iniesta.

The project, funded the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), it has also participated technology-based company Debiotec.

Source: Universidad de Murcia