The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics

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A Novel Food Snack Containing Wheat Bran


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1 Convenience Foods and Confectionery Discipline, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, India
     

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Dietary fibre has been defined as the sum of polysaccharides and lignin which are not digested by the endogenous secretions of the human gastro intestinal tract; this fraction has a variable composition and is made up of several different types of polysaccharides - carbohydrates like cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectic substances, and the non carbohydrate lignin. Tough fibres of meat or fish, which are usually fully digested, are not regarded as dietary fibre.
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Sarojani K. Dastur
Convenience Foods and Confectionery Discipline, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, India
Maya Prakash
Convenience Foods and Confectionery Discipline, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, India

Abstract


Dietary fibre has been defined as the sum of polysaccharides and lignin which are not digested by the endogenous secretions of the human gastro intestinal tract; this fraction has a variable composition and is made up of several different types of polysaccharides - carbohydrates like cellulose, hemicelluloses and pectic substances, and the non carbohydrate lignin. Tough fibres of meat or fish, which are usually fully digested, are not regarded as dietary fibre.