The vast majority (90%) of Americans are falling short of their dietary fiber needs despite growing awareness of its many health benefits. Food manufacturers have yet to find the perfect fiber ingredient – one that is natural, functional, and versatile – to fill the 2-million-ton annual fiber gap in the US alone.
Meanwhile, nature’s best fiber, arabinoxylan, has laid dormant in plant materials left behind and processed out of our modern food system. Arabinoxylan is an exceptional soluble dietary fiber with clinically proven health benefits and superior tolerance in the gut. Despite arabinoxylan making up 70% of the soluble fiber found naturally in grains, large quantities of processed whole grains are needed for a single serving size of soluble arabinoxylan fiber. For example, five cups of wheat bran cereal have to be consumed to reach the serving size of soluble arabinoxylan fiber needed for prebiotic benefits (3.4 grams).
Only COMET has the patented upcycling technology needed to extract naturally occurring arabinoxylan fiber and make it available in a proprietary, high purity and cost-effective form. This simple, yet hard to replicate process, uses only steam, water and pressure for extraction.
At COMET, we extract arabinoxylan from wheat straw for our Arrabina Prebiotic Dietary Fibers. This is why our Arrabina is labeled on an ingredient list as wheat fiber straw or wheat fiber extract.
COMET’s line of proprietary Arrabina dietary fiber was specifically developed to fill the market need for a low-dose prebiotic fiber that can be used in a wide array of food and beverage applications with no trade-offs in terms of taste, cost or performance.
The dietary fiber gap is a BIG problem and COMET has the only BIG enough product opportunity, Arrabina, to solve it. AND we can meet this opportunity with:
COMET has substantiated three structure-function claims on our Arrabina wheat fiber extract. Clinical evidence shows that Arabinoxylan promotes the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut, supports healthy blood sugar levels, and supports a healthy immune system. Complete dossiers are
available.
COMET recently completed a randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover clinical trial evaluating the gastrointestinal (GI) tolerability of Arrabina. Results show that even at a high dosage of 15 grams per day, there were no statistical differences in GI scores between Arrabina and the placebo. The study also found that Arrabina promotes the growth of bifidobacteria, confirming its prebiotic function.
Given that microbiome research is still emerging, we are planning to invest in more clinical trials in the future to support additional claims, including cognition, mood, and skin health.
COMET has achieved its Self-GRAS on Arrabina through an independent third-party panel review. The fiber is gluten-free and made from non-GMO wheat straw.
With as little as 3 grams per day, Arrabina® promotes growth of beneficial bifidobacteria2
ARRABINA is an arabinoxylan prebiotic fiber which is an FDA-recognized, hemicellulose polysaccharide fiber with clinically proven tolerance and prebiotic health benefits. The fiber’s longer chain polysaccharide structure makes it better tolerated by the gut than oligosaccharides as it is digested later in the GI tract. The longer chain also has functionality benefits as it is not as vulnerable to degradation in low pH and high temperature cooking applications.
Arabinoxylan is abundant in nature. In fact, it makes up about 70% of the soluble fiber naturally found in grains4. Yet large quantities of processed whole grains are needed for a single serving size of soluble arabinoxylan fiber.
~ 5 cups of wheat bran cereal5
~ 3 grams2
ONLY COMET solved this problem using our patented upcycling technology to unlock arabinoxylan’s potential and make it available in our line of ARRABINA dietary fibers. ARRABINA makes it easy to add the clinically proven benefits of arabinoxylan to ANY food/beverage/supplement application.
1) A serving of Arrabina supplies 0.85g/RACC of the necessary 3.4 g/day of soluble fiber needed to have prebiotic effect
2) ISAPP; Windley et al. 2015, Cloetens et al. 2010, Francois et al. 2014, Maki et al. 2012, Walton et al. 2012, Damen et al. 2012, Kjølbæk et al. 2019.
3) Oliver Chen, Traci Blonquist, Kristen Sanoshy, Kathleen Kelley, Eunice Mah, The Effect of Arabinoxylan on Gastrointestinal Tolerance in Generally Healthy Adults: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Study, >, Volume 5, Issue Supplement_2, June 2021, Page 304.
4) Jing Wang, et al. “Cereal-derived Arabinoxylans: Structural Features and Structure–activity Correlations.” v. 96,. pp. 157-165. doi: href=”https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tifs.2019.12.016″ 10.1016/j.tifs.2019.12.016
5) https://www.postconsumerbrands.com/raisin-bran/wp-content/uploads/sites/37/2016/09/RaisinBran.pdf
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