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1 Convenience Foods and Confectionery Discipline, Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore 570 013, IN
Source
The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol 25, No 7 (1988), Pagination: 229-233
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.