MALTITOL Explicaes do nutricionista Flvio Terra postado no grupo UNIO ATKINS BRASIL, do yahoo. Fonte: http://br.groups.yahoo.

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Thereza e grupo

A Thereza pediu minha opinio sobre uma artigo que parece est sendo discutido nos grupos do facebook, principalmente sobre o Matitol.

Li o texto e tenho algumas consideraes a serem feitas.

Quem escreveu o texto por princpio contra e qualquer produto no natural, no texto no fala muito bem da estvia, o que indica que alm que contra que se adoce qualquer alimento, mesmo com adoantes naturais.

O texto contm alguns erros, vou focar na tabela e somente no que diz respeito ao ndice Glicmico.

Mas antes preciso explicar um pouco melhor o que o IG

O IG mede o quo rpido uma poro pr definida, normalmente 50 g, de um alimento aps ser ingerido se transforma em glicose sangunea comparado com um padro, padro esse cujo valor de IG 100 o po branco.

E ter ndice 100 no significa que 100% de uma poro do po branco, que o padro, ser transformado em glicose sangunea, significa apenas que o tempo que todo ele demora para ser transformado em glicose sangunea, cerca de + ou - de 1 hora, e para calcular o IG de outros alimentos feita uma comparao do tempo que esse alimento demorou para ser ingerido com o padro, na verdade, tanto o ndice padro quanto os outros so calculados atravs de grficos como o abaixo, ou anexo.

Podemos perceber que o IG no tem nada a ver com a doura do alimento, at por que a doura uma sensao relativa e pode variar de pessoa para pessoa, assim quando o texto afirma "O maltitol tem 75 do impacto glicmico do acar, mas tem apenas 75% da doura do acar, ou seja, so elas por elas." ele est fazendo uma afirmao errnea, j que o sabor de um alimento no tem nada a ver com o seu IG, lembre-se que o po branco no doce.

Ou seja a outra afirmao do texto: "o chocolate com 100g de maltitol equivale, em termos do efeito na glicose no sangue, a 75g do chocolate com acar" tambm no corresponde a realidade, j que a transformao de qualquer alimento em glicose sangunea nada tem a ver com a sua doura.

O que ele teria que fazer seria comparar o IG do acar com o IG do Maltitol e no o seu grau de doura.

Outro ponto a ser levado em considerao que normalmente a digesto dos poliis lenta o suficiente para causar diarreia e gases, por isso a recomendao de se usar pequenas quantidades por dia, como ele mesmo afirma no texto.

A tabela que ele apresenta no texto a seguinte:

Ingrediente Sacarose (acar de mesa) Xarope de Maltitol Hidrolisado de Amido Hidrogenado Maltitol Xilitol Isomalte Sorbitol Lactitol Manitol Eritritol

Doura 100% 75% 33% 75% 100% 55% 60% 35% 60% 70%

GI 60 52 39 36 13 9 9 6 0 0

Cal/g 4 3 2.8 2.7 2.5 2.1 2.5 2 1.5 0.2

E ela apresenta alguns erros, s verifiquei o IG, no procurei o grau de doura e nem quantas calorias cada um fornece, mas so poucas como a da tabela acima, justamente por serem absorvidos muito lentamente e no haver tempo para serem totalmente metabolizados.

Abaixo vou colocar uma tabela com dados colhidos das tabelas de GI produzidas pela The University de Sidney, Austrlia que a me do IG, e suas tabelas servem de referncias para outras instituies de pesquisa em todo o mundo

INGREDIENTES Sacarose (acar de mesa) Xarope de Maltitol Hidrolisado de amido hidrogenado Maltitol Xilitol Isomalte Sorbitol

GI Varia de 58 a 64, depende do tipo de acar, refinado, granulado, etc. 26 No achei, e no sei o nome em ingls desse produto 26 7 2 No achei para o sorbitol puro,mas uma mistura dele com polidextrose tem IG 4

Lactitol Manitol Eritritol

H dois tipo um tem IG -1 e outro 3 0 0

Abaixo um texto em ingls explicando o que o IG Flvio Terra

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