Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd.

Nihon Shokuhin Co., Ltd.

Takahisa Iizuka

Masayasu Takada

Koichi Ogawa

Hirofumi Sonoki

Kazuki Sekikya

Akayo Ito

Kenta Aizawa

Hiroki Takagi

Eri Kokubo

An object of the present invention is to provide a carbohydrate-derived energy supplying agent having slow digestibility and sustained digestibility functions. According to the present invention, there is provided a slowly digestible, sustained-type energy supplying agent comprising a saccharide composition which satisfies the following (A), (B), (C), and (D): (A) a percentage of &#x3b1;-1,6 bonds relative to all glycosidic bonds is 60% or more; (B) a content of saccharides having a degree of polymerization of 1 and 2 relative to all saccharides is 9 mass % or less; (C) a content of saccharides having a degree of polymerization within a range of 3 to 30 relative to all saccharides is 41 mass % or more; and (D) a content of saccharides having a degree of polymerization of 31 or more relative to all saccharides is 50 mass % or less.

Slowly digestible, sustained-type energy supplying agent

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Shizuoka, Japan

Takahisa Iizuka