<;P>;PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a composition for ameliorating a human intestinal environment, which improves human useful intestinal bacteria proliferation but reduces harmful bacteria such as Clostridium, pathogenic Escherichia coli, etc., is safe and has no adverse effect, a composition for ameliorating the metabolic syndrome exhibiting pathological conditions such as internal organ (abdominal part) obesity, hyperlipemia, hypertension, rise in blood sugar level, etc., a human antioxidant composition and a food mixed with the composition having the effects. <;P>;SOLUTION: The composition containing fermented blasted dietary fiber and having the actions is obtained by cooking and blasting a hemicellulose-containing vegetable resource, mixing the cooked blasted product with a fermentation substrate, regulating the water content of the mixture, making a malt with a koji mold, adding water to the obtained malt, mixing a malt dispersion in which the malt is dispersed in water with the cooked blasted product, regulating the water content of the mixture and fermenting the mixture. The food having each of the actions comprises the composition. <;P>;COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT