Originally from East Asia and mainly cultivated in Japan, Konjac has been used in the East for more than 2000 years in the treatment of many disorders, especially for its anti-cholesterol and anti-diabetes virtues, but also in the case of cancerous pathologies.

In our country, this plant is often used for its beauty effects (mainly in the form of a sponge for skin cleansing) and for weight loss. This is why it is found mainly in powder or capsule form in the slimming section. However, its properties go far beyond the simple slimming aspect. The effects on weight loss are due to two effects: one mechanical, appetite suppressant, and the other trapping calories.

Indeed, the Konjac powder, coming from the grinding of the roots of this plant, is made up of 70 to 75% of glucomannans, viscous and absorbent polysaccharide fibers that the body does not assimilate. These highly absorbent fibers can retain more than 100 times their volume in water! They transform, in contact with liquids, into a dense and compact gel, and swell in the stomach, causing a feeling of satiety and limiting the ingestion of food. Glucomannans also trap fats and sugars absorbed during meals, making this plant a real slimming ally on several fronts.

But, well beyond this advantage, Konjac, thanks to its high fiber content, is a valuable weapon against transit disorders that it helps regulate.

Quite similar to psyllium fibers, glucomannan effectively regulates intestinal transit, alleviating diarrhea or, on the contrary, slightly accelerating transit, in case of constipation.

Konjac is therefore ideal for transit disorders, a major problem in our modern Western societies, due to chronic stress, our deficient, unbalanced and excessively industrialized diet. The glucomannan contained in high doses in Konjac regulates, without upsetting the intestinal balance: it accelerates the transit smoothly without reverse excess, reduces flatulence and irritation, reduces chronic diarrhea without causing constipation and relieves some stomach and intestinal inflammation light.

While it can be consumed in powder or capsule form, Konjac also exists in spaghetti form (called shiratakis), ideal for gluten intolerant people, people with food allergies and for those who tend to eat large amounts of food.

Very useful in many cases, whether to limit the feeling of hunger or to regulate a disturbed transit, it is important to note that Konjac contains neither minerals, nor vitamins, nor proteins and that it will be well used only within the framework of a healthy and balanced diet, in the absence of which deficiencies could well point the end of their nose.