| abstract |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a composition effective for improving the diversity of an intestinal flora. Further, the present invention provides a composition effective for prevention and improvement of diarrhea, constipation, obesity and the like. SOLUTION: A composition for improving intestinal flora diversity, which comprises three or more kinds of indigestible carbohydrate raw materials selected from oligosaccharides (excluding chitin oligosaccharides) and / or dietary fiber. .. The oligosaccharides are particularly preferably raffinose, galactooligosaccharides, isomaltooligosaccharides, milk fruit oligosaccharides, lactulose, xylooligosaccharides or fructooligosaccharides. The dietary fiber is particularly preferably inulin, guar gum decomposition product, psyllium seed gum, indigestible dextrin, isomalto dextrin, cellulose, β-glucan, glucomannan or agarose. The composition for improving the diversity of the intestinal flora can be a nutritional composition, a food composition, a pharmaceutical composition or a feed composition. [Selection diagram] Fig. 1 |