Grain compositions containing pre-biotic isomalto-oligosaccharides and methods of making and using same

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Methods for the production of substrate tuber, and grain compositions , containing isomalto-oligosaccharides are described. The methods comprise (a) contacting a substrate, tuber or grain containing ungelatinized starch with a maltogenic enzyme and a starch liquefying enzyme to produce maltose; (b) contacting said maltose with a transglucosidic enzyme wherein said steps (a) , and step (b) occur at a temperature less than or at a starch gelatinization temperature; and (c) obtaining a substrate grain or tuber composition having , an enzymatically produced isomalto-oligosaccharide wherein the , oligosaccharide is derived from the grain. The maltogenic enzyme can be either exogenous or …