Guar gum is a popular nutritional supplement which is received from seeds of a pea tree. It increases viscosity, facilitates process of freezing and a defrosting, is used as the stabilizer and emulsifier. Such substance is a part of many products, including sauces, yogurts and ice cream.
Advantages of guar gum
Products which contain guar gum are recommended to be used that who wants to lose weight. The fact is that such substance considerably weakens appetite, normalizes work of a GIT, accelerates a conclusion of slags and toxins from an organism, has light laxative effect, slows down process of accumulation of fats. This also remarkable means in fight against the increased cholesterol level.
Also guar gum is very useful to people who are sick with diabetes. Thanks to it the intensity of absorption of sugar considerably decreases. Products which contain such substance well are suitable for prevention and an additional tool at treatment of diabetes.
Thanks to guar gum, calcium is much better acquired. At the shortage of this substance in an organism happens to use not enough special medicines as the GIT badly perceives such means. The combination of special medical polyvitaminic complexes to the products rich with guar gum will help to solve a problem. It is especially relevant for children as the growing organism needs calcium and also for elderly people, pregnant women and the feeding women.
Harm of guar gum
Guar gum – harmless nutritional supplement of plant origin. If to use it, knowing when to stop, no problems with health will arise. However at the excessive use of guar gum of people can face very unpleasant side effects which can badly affect not only health at some point, but also on a condition of an organism in general. Abuse of the products containing this substance quite often leads to developing of severe nausea and vomiting. One more side effect – diarrhea and a meteorizm. As a rule, these symptoms are followed by severe pain in a stomach which is difficult to be removed quickly by means of drugs. The excessive use of guar gum can cause allergic reaction in some people, however it is rather an exception, than the rule. It should be noted also the fact that the use of products with rather high content of guar gum can be harmful if to combine it with use of some medicines. To avoid complications and side effects, read the instruction to drugs which you plan to apply.