Research Note

Effect of Large or Long-term Intake of Soft Drinkscontaining Galacto-oligosaccharides on Human Health

Rie TAKAYAMA1, AtsushiWATANABE2, Kazuhisa ODAKA1,
Keiichiro OKABE1,2, Junko YAMADA3 and OsamuTOCHIKUBO4

1DDS R&D Center, Advance Co.,Ltd.
2Microbial Flora Institute, Advance Co, Ltd.
3Omori Hospitai, Facuity of Medicine, Toho
4Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine,Faculty of Medicine, Yokohama City University

　Effects of large or long-term intake ofgalacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) on defecation, abdominal symptomsand physical conditions were tested in 21 healthy humans (11 malesand 10 females; average age 38.5±8.3 years). The subjectswere divided into two groups; the large intakc group (6 males and 5females; averagc agc 38.8

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