But your post still begs the question: Why doesn't M****tech just use the individual sugars rather than polysaccharides when it seems much more difficult to break down the polysaccharides into monosacharides (if possible at all)? And why choose to patent such a formula using these polysaccharides when the rational behind their use is the absorption of these different sugars? If I can make a formula using just plain mannose, galactose, xylose, etc., and I absorb all of them much easier than polysaccharides, then are you saying, or rather is M****tech implying, that I can make a better product then they can? This makes no sense.