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Indigestable dextrin Patent number: 5364652 Assignee: Matsutani Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (Hyogo, JP) Inventors: Kazuhiro Ohkuma (Sanda, JP), Yoshio Hanno (Itami, JP), Kazuyuki Inada (Takarazuka, JP), Isao Matsuda (Itami, JP), Yasuo Katta (Hyogo, JP)	An indigestible dextrin characterized in that the dextrin is prepared by heat-treating potato starch with addition of hydrochloric acid thereto to obtain a pyrodextrin, hydrolyzing the pyrodextrin with alpha-amylase and glucoamylase and removing at least one-half of glucose formed from the resulting hydrolyzate, and comprises a fraction other than glucose.
Indigestible dextrin Patent number: 5472732 Assignee: Matsutani Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (Hyogo, JP) Inventors: Kazuhiro Ohkuma (Sanda, JP), Yoshio Hanno (Itami, JP), Kazuyuki Inada (Takarazuka, JP), Isao Matsuda (Itami, JP), Yasuo Katta (Hyogo, JP)	An indigestible dextrin characterized in that the dextrin contains: (A) up to 50% of 1.fwdarw.4 glycosidic linkages, and (B) at least 60% of an indigestible component, (C) the content of indigestible component as actually determined varying within the range of .+-.5% from a value Y calculated from at least one equations, i.e., Equations 1 to 30, given in the specification, (D) the indigestible dextrin being prepared by adding hydrochloric acid to potato starch and heating the potato starch at 120.degree. to 200.degree. C. using an extruder, the value Y being a calculated content (%) of the indigestible component.

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Indigestable dextrin
Patent number: 5364652
Assignee: Matsutani Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (Hyogo, JP)
Inventors: Kazuhiro Ohkuma (Sanda, JP), Yoshio Hanno (Itami, JP), Kazuyuki Inada (Takarazuka, JP), Isao Matsuda (Itami, JP), Yasuo Katta (Hyogo, JP)

An indigestible dextrin characterized in that the dextrin is prepared by heat-treating potato starch with addition of hydrochloric acid thereto to obtain a pyrodextrin, hydrolyzing the pyrodextrin with alpha-amylase and glucoamylase and removing at least one-half of glucose formed from the resulting hydrolyzate, and comprises a fraction other than glucose.

Indigestible dextrin
Patent number: 5472732
Assignee: Matsutani Chemical Industries Co., Ltd. (Hyogo, JP)
Inventors: Kazuhiro Ohkuma (Sanda, JP), Yoshio Hanno (Itami, JP), Kazuyuki Inada (Takarazuka, JP), Isao Matsuda (Itami, JP), Yasuo Katta (Hyogo, JP)

An indigestible dextrin characterized in that the dextrin contains: (A) up to 50% of 1.fwdarw.4 glycosidic linkages, and (B) at least 60% of an indigestible component, (C) the content of indigestible component as actually determined varying within the range of .+-.5% from a value Y calculated from at least one equations, i.e., Equations 1 to 30, given in the specification, (D) the indigestible dextrin being prepared by adding hydrochloric acid to potato starch and heating the potato starch at 120.degree. to 200.degree. C. using an extruder, the value Y being a calculated content (%) of the indigestible component.