The guar plant (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba) is grown in many parts of India, even in places where there is great drought. The beans and leaves of this plant have been part of the Indian diet for thousands of years. Guar beans are a rich source of soluble prebiotic fibers. Vitals Guar Bean Fibers use Sunfiber®. This is the brand name of guar bean fibers that obtain their superior user-friendly properties, such as excellent solubility in water, through the application of a natural fermentation process. Sunfiber® fermented guar bean fibers are considered the ideal fibers worldwide!

What are fibers?
Dietary fibres are long chains of carbohydrates, consisting of 10 or more carbohydrate building blocks (monosaccharides), which cannot be broken down by digestive enzymes in the human small intestine. Dietary fibres are an important part of a varied and balanced diet. Fibres can be divided into two categories, water-soluble and water-insoluble fibres. Examples of water-soluble fibres are guar bean fibres (also called galactomannan), inulin (FOS) and psyllium fibres. Water-insoluble fibres include wheat bran and fibres from other (whole grain) cereals. Water-soluble fibres are also called prebiotics, because they can be fermented by the intestinal flora. The more soluble a fibre is, the better it is fermented. Fermentation by the intestinal flora produces metabolites such as short-chain fatty acids (including butyrate, propionate, acetate). However, it is important that this fermentation process does not take place too quickly, otherwise this can cause gas formation.

Sunfiber® by Taiyo
Sunfiber® has the ideal properties of excellent water solubility and a not too fast, but complete, fermentation. This makes the product very user-friendly, compared to, for example, psyllium fibres that dissolve considerably less well in water and inulin that is fermented very quickly. Taiyo is the producer of Sunfiber® and the global market leader and expert in the field of guar bean fibres. The fibres from guar beans normally form a gel in water. Taiyo has therefore developed a special production process to make the fibres dissolve better in water. The reason for this gel formation is that guar bean fibres naturally consist of very long chains of carbohydrates. By means of a fermentation process (by adding a natural enzyme) the long chains are, as it were, pre-digested in the factory into shorter chains, which are much more soluble. However, the carbohydrate chains must not become too short, otherwise they will be fermented too quickly in the intestine. Taiyo's unique production process ensures optimum chain length and gives Sunfiber® its ideal properties. Furthermore, Sunfiber® in Guar Bean Fibers is made entirely from unsprayed cultivated guar beans.

Permitted health claims:
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Fermented guar bean fiber (from Indian guar beans, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba).