Taste is what makes people keep going back to unhealthy food, even when logic tells them they're doing some self-harm. So there's no doubt that by adding flavour, it will make a new way of life more bearable, easier to adapt to and sustain.But is your flavour helping or hindering your progress towards health?
After looking at chemical based artificial sweeteners and other harmful ingredients in flavours, we decided to manufacture a huge range of flavours that are uniquely built with Inulin.
Inulin is a prebiotic fibre that's found in 36,000 plant species. It regulates fat metabolism, and blood sugars and has links to helping with constipation and depression. And now in a double blind scientific study, it's been discovered that people with prediabetes who took inulin lost significantly more weight, and more fat from around the stomach area than those who took cellulose over 18 weeks.
How Inulin works is by mixing with water to form a gel that slows down how quickly digested food leaves the stomach. This helps you to feel fuller for longer, stimulates the growth of beneficial bacteria improving your gut health.
Here's what happened in this scientific study They took 44 people, all diagnosed with prediabetes so they had elevated blood sugar levels but not quite high enough to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Half the group were given inulin, the other half cellulose. It is what is called a double blind test because the participants had no idea which group they were in.
During weeks 1-9 a dietician supported both groups, and the dietician had no idea what group the participants were in either. After 9 weeks both groups had lost 5% of total body weight.
At the 9 week mark, full MRI body scans measured overall weight, fat accumulated around the body and organs. Metabolism glucose, insulin and GLP-1 levels were measured.
During weeks 10 - 18 the subjects continued to take the inulin and cellulose supplements as they headed into a maintenance phase with no further external support. When re-measuring the inulin group lost significantly more body weight (1.8% to 2.8%) versus (0.2% to 1%) on cellulose.
Not only was there a substantially higher overall weight loss, when the study repeated the MRI body scan at 18 weeks, they discovered that the inulin group had much lower fat specifically around the stomach area, consumed less food in meals due to already feeling satisfied, and their blood sugar levels remained stable.
Their findings concluded that Inulin may have a two-pronged effect on the risk of diabetes by 1) promoting weight loss 2) reducing body fat around organs and the stomach in people with prediabetes, independent of weight loss.
So Inulin does amazing things and how it works is quite similar to the effects that weight loss injections are trying to achieve with synthetics.
We have 3 ways to assist you to incorporate inulin into your world:
• unflavoured, pure, zero carb Beneo brand available in jars and 1kg bags
• unsweetened natural flavours in 500g bags
• Flavour Its which are a huge range of Inulin based natural flavours, delicately sweetened by pure monk fruit range.
With so many natural inulin flavours to choose from, you can dose everything and anything with them. Water, Protein Shakes, Cereals, Yoghurt, Coffees, Baking, Chocolates, Jams, Ice-cream. It's so versatile, that the list is endless.
However you choose to dose it in, inulin is super promising as a weight loss supplement that targets exactly those wobbly bits that many wish they could banish from their life.
