If you are a person on a diet and want to experiment in the kitchen by creating low-calorie products, thickeners will be an extremely helpful ingredient. Having access to ingredients that until now were available only to professionals, you can independently create dietary equivalents of known products. Consistency is an extremely important element of how we perceive what we eat. If the dish is watery (and diet foods are often like that), we will not feel the satisfaction of food and we will not satisfy hunger. Appropriately used thickeners can effectively fight against hungry starvation. One of the most interesting products in this category is konjac flour, which not only thickens the meal without adding calories to it (thanks to the very high fiber content) it sustains for long hours. Guar gum and xanthan gum are in turn an extremely important component of bread and other gluten-free pastries.
