Patent ID: 7919479

Claim:
A preparation comprising an anti-adhesive carbohydrate or a mixture of antiadhesive carbohydrates having a terminal uronic acid unit on one of the ends thereof, and wherein the antiadhesive carbohydrates have a maximum degree of polymerization of DP 100, 10-50% of the terminal uronic acid units of said antiadhesive carbohydrates have a double bond, and 50 to 100% of the double bonds are situated between the C 4 and C 5 atom of the terminal uronic acid units, and wherein the degree of esterification of the antiadhesive carbohydrate mixture of antiadhesive carbohydrates with methanol is 20 to 50%; and wherein said preparation contains, apart from the antiadhesive carbohydrate(s), a prebiotic carbohydrate mixture of two different, essentially soluble carbohydrate components A and B, that remain undigested in the gastrointestinal tract and reach the large intestine non-absorbed, that the carbohydrate component A is built up from at least one monosaccharide or from at least one oligosaccharide having from two to six saccharide units or from a mixture of two or several of these saccharides, the carbohydrate component B is built up from a polysaccharide having at least seven saccharide units or from a mixture of two or several polysaccharides, that the carbohydrate component A=5 to 95 wt-%, and the carbohydrate component B=5 to 95 wt-% of the sum of the carbohydrate components A+B and that at least 80 wt-% of the carbohydrates/saccharides of the carbohydrate component A and B are prebiotically active, and that the carbohydrates, which constitute the carbohydrate component A and the carbohydrate component B, do not represent the antiadhesive carbohydrates; and wherein the preparation is a food product.