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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 83, No. 6, 1321-1330, June 2006
© 2006 American Society for Nutrition

ORIGINAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATION

Availability, fermentability, and energy value of resistant maltodextrin: modeling of short-term indirect calorimetric measurements in healthy adults 1,2,3

Toshinao Goda, Yuya Kajiya, Kazuhito Suruga, Hiroyuki Tagami and Geoffrey Livesey

1 From the Laboratory of Nutritional Physiology and the COE Program in the 21st Century, University of Shizuoka School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Shizuoka, Japan (TG, YK and KS); Matsutani Chemical Industry Co, Ltd, Itami, Japan (HT); and Independent Nutrition Logic Ltd, Wymondham, United Kingdom (GL)

Background: Determination of the metabolizable (ME) and net metabolizable (NME) energy of total carbohydrate requires estimation of its available (AC) and fermentable (FC) carbohydrate content. Modeling of indirect calorimetric observations (respiratory gas exchange) and breath hydrogen would appear to make it possible to estimate noninvasively these nutritional quantities and the approximate time-course of availability.

Objective:We assessed the time-course of metabolism and energy availability from resistant maltodextrin (RMD) by modeling of respiratory gases after a single oral dose.

Design:Seventeen healthy adults (13 M, 4 F; aged 25–46 y) were randomly assigned to treatments (water, maltodextrin, or RMD) in a multiple-crossover, single-blinded trial with ≥7 d washout. We monitored 8-h nitrogen-corrected oxygen and carbon dioxide exchanges and breath hydrogen. All treatment groups took low-carbohydrate meals at 3 and 6 h.

Results:Indirect calorimetry alone provided only qualitative information about the nutritional values of carbohydrate. In contrast, modeling of gaseous exchanges along with the use of central assumptions showed that 17 ± 2% of RMD was AC and 40 ± 4% was FC. As compared with 17 kJ gross energy/g RMD, mean (±SE) energy values were 7.3 ± 0.6 kJ ME/g and 6.3 ± 0.5 kJ NME/g. The fiber fraction of RMD provided 5.2 ± 0.7 kJ ME/g and 4.1 ± 0.6 kJ NME/g.

Conclusions:Modeling with the use of this noninvasive and widely available respiratory gas–monitoring technique yields nutritional values for carbohydrate that are supported by enzymatic, microbial, and animal studies and human fecal collection studies. Improvement in this approach is likely and testable across laboratories.

Key Words: Indirect calorimetry • available carbohydrate • fermentable carbohydrate • energy value • modeling • humans






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