Konjac - the secret / o segredo

I promised I was going to write about what was that rice and that spaghetti made of ! Here it is - Konjac!



Konjac is a plant that grows in Asia and that has many health and diet benefits! Wikipedia quote below :

" The dried corm of the konjac plant contains around 40% glucomannan gum. This polysaccharide makes konjac jelly highly viscous and may be responsible for many of its putative health benefits as used in traditional Chinese medicine, detoxification, tumour-suppression, blood stasis alleviation and phlegm liquefaction.

Konjac has almost no calories, but is very high in fiber. Thus, it is often used as a diet food. The Omikenshi Company has developed a process which mixes treated wood pulp with konjac; the resulting fiber-rich flour contains neither gluten nor fat, and almost no carbohydrates, and has just 60 calories a kilogram vis-à-vis 3,680 for wheat.

The dietary fiber from the corm of Amorphophallus konjac is used as a component of weight loss supplements. Konjac supplementation at modest levels has been shown to promote increased butyric acid through improved bowel flora ecology and increase bowel movements in constipated adults.^"

I've learnt through the years that Wikipedia is not the most reliable source so I went to do my own research where I know information is relevant - scientific papers! There are indeed several papers supporting the statement that there is a significant weight loss when using konjac which got me pretty optimist! I was happy using the anyway just more excited science supports it now !!!!