Data show that the average life expectancy of Chinese residents has increased to 78.2 years in 2021, and the proportion of people aged 65 and above in the total population has reached 14.2%, and is expected to exceed 20% in 2030. The natural frailty of the elderly and unreasonable diet are one of the important factors affecting the health of the elderly. In addition, the types of food for the elderly on the market in our country cannot meet the needs of the elderly in terms of nutrition, formula and taste.

With the increasing aging of the population, there are nearly 150 million elderly people with chronic diseases in China. The increasing incidence of chronic diseases in the elderly is closely related to the daily diet.

Resistant starch is a new type of dietary fiber, which has become a hot topic in food science research in recent years because of its unique physical and chemical properties and physiological functions. Resistant starch is not hydrolyzed by digestive enzymes in the human digestive tract and reaches the colon, which has a variety of benefits. It is used in the development of functional products, and combined with microcapsules and other technologies to embed nutrients, play a variety of physiological functions and prevent the occurrence of various diseases.

Regulate blood glucose

Diabetes mellitus has gradually become a global epidemic disease, which is highly prevalent in middle-aged and elderly people. The elderly are prone to problems such as insulin resistance and insufficient insulin secretion, leading to a high incidence of type 2 diabetes. At present, patients with type 2 diabetes mainly rely on drugs to control the disease, which will increase the economic burden of patients while having certain toxic and side effects. Dietary intervention is an important preventive measure. The 2020 Chinese Expert consensus on the intervention of Prediabetes in Chinese Adults also clearly pointed out that lifestyle intervention represented by diet can prevent people with impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance from developing into type 2 diabetes, and should be used as the basic treatment for type 2 diabetes. Resistant starch can significantly reduce the GI value of food. Because it can not be decomposed and stagnates in the intestine, the resistant starch releases glucose slowly, so the postprandial blood glucose response is small, and the insulin required is correspondingly reduced, which avoids the violent fluctuation of blood glucose and is conducive to the effective control of blood glucose.

 Regulate the gastrointestinal environment

Resistant starch is defined as a kind of dietary fiber. Compared with dietary fiber, resistant starch has a preventive effect on constipation, enteritis and colorectal cancer. The physiological function of the GI tract declines with aging. The aging process is accompanied by frailty, cognitive decline, increased incidence of chronic diseases, and some lifestyle changes, such as decreased diet quality, decreased physical activity, and increased medication and surgery. These alterations in regulation (see figure below) can make older people more susceptible to chronic age-related diseases and disorders, leading to a two-way vicious cycle of increasingly declining health.

Resistant starch is a member of prebiotics. When fermented in the large intestine, it provides "food" for probiotics in the intestine. Under the action of the latter, it is converted to gases (methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide) and short-chain fatty acids (acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid and valic acid), which can reduce the pH in the large intestine, reduce the incidence of colon cancer, and inhibit the growth and reproduction of pathogenic bacteria. At the same time, it can promote the growth of intestinal probiotics, which is one of the effective programs to maintain intestinal function and prevent intestinal diseases.

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