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Dear all,

In our Food Composition Tables (Japan), available carbohydrates include 
following saccharides:

starch (including dextrin and glycogen), glucose, fructose, galactose, 
sucrose, maltose, lactose, trehalose, isomaltose, maltooligosaccharides, 
80%-ethanol soluble maltodextrins.

We think poly- and oligoglucosacharides with alpha-1,4 and/or alpha-1,6 
glucosidic bond are generally digestible by human enzymes, and so 
maltooligosaccharides and 80%-ethanol soluble maltodextrins are included 
in the available carbohydrates.
(80%-ethanol soluble maltodextrins cannot be measured by the analytical 
method employed for starch determination <in our Tables>.)

We follow INFOODS guidelines, and so organic acids and polyols (sugar 
alcohols) are not considered as available carbohydrates.

Regards,

Takeshi

Takeshi Yasui
Grain chemist
Expert Committee on Food Components, Japan




On 2017/12/21 6:20, Anders Møller wrote:
> Dear David,
> 
> A nice subject for a good discussion J
> 
> In European legislation sugars are defined like this ” ‘sugars’ means 
> all monosaccharides and disaccharides present in food, but excludes 
> polyols” (REGULATION (EU) No 1169/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF 
> THE COUNCIL of 25 October 2011 on the provision of food information to 
> consumers, 
> http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32011R1169&from=en).
> 
> In the Codex Alimentarius Food Labelling Standard the definition is 
> “Sugars means all mono-saccharides and di-saccharides present in food” 
> (General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods – CODEX STAN 1 
> – 1985, amended 2010, 
> http://www.fao.org/fao-who-codexalimentarius/sh-proxy/en/?lnk=1&url=https%253A%252F%252Fworkspace.fao.org%252Fsites%252Fcodex%252FStandards%252FCODEX%2BSTAN%2B1-1985%252FCXS_001e.pdf).
> 
> In past Danish regulations, the definition included mono-, di- and 
> trisaccharides.
> 
> Season’s Greetings from Roskilde,
> 
> Anders
> 
> *Anders Møller*
> 
> Danish Food Informatics
> 
> Borgediget 12
> 
> DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark
> 
> *From:*Food Composition Discussion Group 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Mark Wahlqvist
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 20, 2017 21:50
> *To:* [log in to unmask]
> *Subject:* Re: Available Carbohydrates
> 
> The approach suggested of Available Carbohydrates will obscur the 
> extensive differences in functionality of the various carbohydrates.It 
> will add to the present confusion through oversimplification of food 
> macronutrients ,playing into the hands of food mischief- makers. Much 
> difference among carbohydrates sources resides in food structure, 
> without which informed decision-making about macronutrients is not 
> possible.Let's not pretend otherwise.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Professor Mark L Wahlqvist MD FRACP,FAFPHM,FAIFST
> 
> Past President IUNS
> 
> On 21 Dec. 2017 07:01, "Haytowitz, David" <[log in to unmask] 
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
>     As we redesign our Nutrient Databank System we will be adding 
> “Available Carbohydrates” to the database.   We understand “Available 
> carbohydrate” to be the sum of sugar and starch, However, we wonder 
> which sugars are included in the value for sugar.  Is the value for 
> sugars just the sum of the individual monosaccharides and disaccharides 
> (sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose, maltose, galactose) or do they 
> include other sugars (Dextrins, inulin, oligosaccharides, organic acids 
> and sugar alcohols)?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
> David
> 
> David B. Haytowitz
> 
> Nutritionist
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