Decatur, Ill. (Oct. 14, 2009) – Healthy adults can experience an improvement in bowel habits by consuming more resistant starch.

Tate Lyle, a world-leading renewable food and industrial ingredients company, and the maker of PROMITOR™ Dietary Fibers, has released new clinical research demonstrating resistant starch as an important fiber for a healthy gut. The research reports that incorporating 25 grams per day of PROMITOR™ Resistant Starch, an insoluble, natural dietary fiber, into the diet promotes regularity in healthy adults without producing significant gastrointestinal side effects.

This study, led by researchers at Provident Clinical Research, reports that foods manufactured with PROMITOR™ Resistant Starch can increase fecal bulk by an average of 20 percent without changing bowel consistency and with no indication of gastrointestinal intolerance.

“This research shows that PROMITOR™ enhances stool bulk, an important indicator of the health of the digestive system,” says Tia M. Rains, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, Provident Clinical Research.

Adding bulk also may promote the health of the colon by speeding up transit through the digestive system.

“The faster food moves through the digestive tract, the less frequently harmful compounds, such as carcinogens, come in contact with the digestive system,” explains Lisa Sanders, Ph.D., RD, Tate Lyle. “The added bulk also helps to dilute any harmful compounds that may exist and minimize their negative impact on the colon.”

In addition to adding bulk, PROMITOR™ Resistant Starch is easily incorporated into foods during the manufacturing process. Tate Lyle’s resistant starch also possess functional properties, such as high crystallinity and heat stability, making it particularly resilient to high temperature cooking environments such as baking and extrusion.

The study’s results were published online in the International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition in August 2009. To view the study in its entirety please visit: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/09637480903130538

About PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber

With the heightened consumer interest in eating healthy, fiber-rich foods, Tate Lyle’s PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber can be easily incorporated into a broad range of food and beverage applications without compromising great taste and texture. Clinical studies have found PROMITOR™ Dietary Fibers provide excellent tolerance for consumers when compared to other sources of fiber. The PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber range includes PROMITOR™ Soluble Corn Fiber and PROMITOR™ Resistant Starch, and can be used to manufacture healthy products for the entire family. For more information about PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber, visit www.promitorfiber.com

About Tate Lyle

Tate Lyle is a world-leading renewable food and industrial ingredients company, serving a global market from more than 45 production facilities throughout the Americas, Europe and South East Asia. Our efficient, large-scale manufacturing plants turn agricultural products, corn and cane sugar, into valuable ingredients for our customers. These ingredients add taste, texture, nutrition and increased functionality to products that millions of people around the world use or consume every day.

Tate Lyle’s range of leading branded food ingredients includes SPLENDA® Sucralose, PROMITOR™ Dietary Fiber, STA-LITE® Polydextrose, Tate Lyle Fairtrade Sugar and Lyle's Golden Syrup. Tate Lyle also produces branded industrial ingredients including Bio-PDO™, Ethylex® and STA-Lock® paper starches; and staple ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup, sugar, ethanol, citric acid and basic starches. In addition to providing a wide range of ingredients our expert sales and product applications teams support customers by providing technical advice and proprietary consumer insight studies.

Tate Lyle is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol TATE.L. American Depositary Receipts trade under TATYY. In the year to 31 March 2009, Tate Lyle employed 5,718 people in its subsidiaries and joint ventures, and sales totaled 6.4 billion (£3.55 billion in the U.K.) http://www.tateandlyle.com

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Research Methodology: 14 subjects participated in the study and were thus included in the analysis. These individuals (eight men and six women) had a mean +/- standard deviation age of 32.4 +/- 10.1 and body mass index of 26.7 +/- 4.9.