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Konjac mannan improves the vitamin B-6 status of rats fed a vitamin B-6-deficient diet.

To investigate how dietary fiber in the diet affects vitamin B-6 nutriture of rats which have been deprived of vitamin B-6, rats were made vitamin B-6-deficient by feeding a vitamin B-6-deficient 70% casein diet. They were fed 2% cellulose powder-based vitamin B-6-deficient diets supplemented with 3% of additional dietary fiber sources (agar, konjac mannan, pectin and cellulose powder) for subsequent 18 days. Vitamin B-6 status was evaluated according to several biological criteria (weight gain, urinary excretion of xanthurenic acid after tryptophan loading, plasma pyridoxal 5'-phosphate, apparent pyridoxal 5'-phosphate-saturation of liver kynureninase, urinary excretion of 4-pyridoxic acid and fecal output of vitamin B-6). Vitamin B-6 status evaluated by these criteria was considerably improved in the konjac mannan-fed group, when compared with the respective data of the vitamin B-6 supplemented group. The relative mean effect of the konjac mannan diet was about 40% of the vitamin B-6 supplemented diet. In conclusion, konjac mannan was effective for improving the vitamin B-6 nutritional state in vitamin B-6-deprived rats.[1]

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  1. Konjac mannan improves the vitamin B-6 status of rats fed a vitamin B-6-deficient diet. Hayakawa, T., Iida, Y., Tsuge, H. International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale Zeitschrift für Vitamin- und Ernährungsforschung. Journal international de vitaminologie et de nutrition. (1999) [Pubmed]
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