Why Nyanwan Glucan?

About β-glucan:

β-glucan is a dietary fiber. It helps in health maintenance and disease prevention.

A polysaccharide in which only glucose is bound in large numbers is called glucan, and it is classified as a carbohydrate in food chemistry.

Glucans can be divided into α-type and β-type according to their stereochemistry. In beta-1,3 glucan, the glycosidic bonds are formed at the first and third carbons in the glucose ring.

Nyanwan Glucan is 1,3-1,6 Beta Glucan in which there is a 1,3 carbon backbone with elongated 1,6 carbon branches

Unique features of Nyanwan Glucan

This is NOT 1,3, or 1-4 or 1,6 Beta Glucan

【 Chemical name 】 β-1,3-1,6-D-glucan, 【 Molecular formula 】 (C6H10O5)n

This is 1,3 - 1,6 –D Beta glucan With a unique structural formula

The Source

Not extracted from Bakers Yeast Or Shiitake/Maitake mushroom Or Oats

Nyanwan Glucan is produced by A special strain(AFO-202) of Aureobasidium Pullulans in Bioreactors under GMP compliance

The Purity

AFO-202 strain of Aureobasidium Pullulans with no need for further purifications, the purity amounts to better immune enhancement in our studies

Other sources require Purification and / or extraction, which is not required in any of the processes of manufacturing Nyanwan Glucan.

The Aureobasidium Pullulans AF 202 strain secretes Nyanwan Glucan as an exopolysaccharide into the culture medium in which it is grown. No separate extraction or purification step is required

Hence Nyanwan Glucan has High functionality

Taste:

  • There is neither a mushroom smell nor a yeast smell.
  • Easy to mix with food materials

Nyanwan Glucan is recognized by pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) in our body as PAMPs and hence has high functional effects in terms of immunity

Nyanwan Glucan for General wellbeing

1. Blood sugar control

Nyanwan β-glucan absorbs water when it is dissolved in water, and has the property of becoming a gel. Therefore, if your pets take a meal (or a food containing Nyanwan β-glucan) together with Nyanwanβ-glucan, it will become attached to food in the stomach, digesting and absorbing carbohydrates will be slow, and postprandial blood glucose levels will be maintained at moderate levels.

In addition, because the postprandial increase in blood sugar level is not high, it prevents excessive secretion of insulin in the pancreas and suppresses the increase in fasting blood sugar level too. Thus, Nyanwan Glucan is thought to be effective also in diabetes prevention.

Study done with AF202- strain derived Beta Glucan on Blood sugar levels

  • Human subjects ate nothing after 21:00 of the night before the test.
  • One subject group ate the rice w/o glucan and the other group ate the rice with glucan. The test was practiced twice in different days. Same subjects ate the same samples in the same hour.
  • In the morning fasting on the test day, the preprandial blood glucose levels were measured by the ACCU-CHEK meter.
  • All subjects ate 200g of rice. The postprandial glucose levels were measured 30 minutes, 60 minutes and 120 minutes after the rice intake.
  • 35mg of β-glucan was added to 200g of rice for the administered group. Made the subjects unaware of the presence β-glucan in their test samples.
  • The serum insulin levels in both groups were measured by the Gurazaimu insulin-EIA TEST kit. 　　　　

We equated glucose levels before the intake to 100. This graph shows the rate of change in the glucose levels after the intake.In comparison the rice w/o glucan, the group that was administered the rice with glucan showed a significant suppression of elevated blood glucose levels 60 and 120 minutes after the rice intake.

We equated glucose levels before the intake to 100. This graph shows the rate of change in the insulin levels after the intake. In comparison the rice w/o glucan, the group that was administered the rice with glucan showed a significant suppression of elevated insulin levels 30 and 120 minutes after the rice intake.

2. Blood cholesterol normalization

When LDL cholesterol level in blood is high, it is said to cause lifestyle-related diseases such as atherosclerosis to thicken the blood vessel wall and make the blood flow worse. Therefore, it is important to keep LDL-cholesterol levels (and total cholesterol levels) at normal levels. Water-soluble β-glucan has the function of suppressing the absorption of cholesterol and keeping the total cholesterol level normal.

Study comparing effects of 150mg AF202 strain derived Beta-glucan VS 6g Barley β-glucan on LDL cholesterol levels

Intake of 150 mg / day of black yeast β-1,3-1,6-glucan significantly reduced LDL-cholesterol and total cholesterol levels for 4 weeks.

LDL cholesterol (n = 32)

Test for people with LDL-cholesterol 120 mg / dL or more

Total cholesterol (n = 32)

Test for people with LDL-cholesterol 120 mg / dL or more

※ The intake data of barley β-glucan is quoted from the following documents: Behall, KM, Scholfield, D. and Hallfrisch, J., Diets containing barley reduce lipids significantly in moderately hypercholesterolemic men and women, Am. J. Clin. Nut 80, 1185, 2004.

The improvement level in total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol after ingestion of 150mg of AFO 202 strain derived Beta-glucan / day was the same or better than 6g of the Barley β- glucan

*The effect of lowering LDL-cholesterol levels has been recognized by the FDA (US Food and Drug Administration).

3. Constipation Prevention

Nyanwan beta-glucan, which takes in 300 to 1000 times the amount of water in the intestine and expands, is not digested and absorbed, and most of it is excreted as feces. At that time, Nyanwanβ-glucan mixed with the stool holds the water, softens the stool and increases its bulk. When the bulk increases, the intestinal wall is stimulated, and the peristaltic movement that promotes defecation becomes active, and constipation is resolved.

Nyanwan glucan to boost the immunity

1. Activation of Immunity

Nyanwan Glucan reaches the intestines and activates the attack of cancerous cells The human digestive system is equipped with an "immune defense function" that protects itself from pathogens and viruses that have invaded from the outside, harmful chemicals, and cancer cells that are said to occur several thousand daily in the body.

"Immune defense function" works when various immune cells work together, and "NK (natural killer) cells" are particularly important among them. NK cells are equipped with the ability to travel all over the body constantly for immune-surveillance, and when it detects cancer cells and/or virus-infected cells, it works to attack and kill them.

60 to 70% of NK cells present in the intestine. Nyanwan Glucan supports this function. Nyanwan Glucan is not digested and reaches the intestine when it is ingested, and stimulates and activates immune cells including NK cells in the intestine and improves immunity.

2. Increasing NK cell activity

Decreased Natural Killer (NK) cell activity is associated with increased risk of cancer

Increase in NK cell activity after consumption of AF 202 strain produced Beta Glucan