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Where Do Fibres Come From and What Role Do They Have in Food and Health?

Author(s): Bryan Le, MA

Dietary fibre has become an important functional ingredient in recent times due to growing consumer interest in the many health benefits of fibre touted by the scientific community (Anderson 2009).  Fibre has been recently defined by the FDA as “non-digestible soluble and insoluble carbohydrates (with three or more monomeric units) and lignin that are intrinsic… Read more »