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Dietary Fibre: The Non-Nutrient in Carbohydrate Foods
Dietary fibre is a group of complex carbohydrates that are not a source of energy for human beings. 16-02-2009
Because human digestive enzymes cannot break the bonds that hold fibre’s sugar units together, fibre adds no calories to your diet and cannot be converted to glucose.
Ruminants (animals, such as cows, that chew the cud and have several stomachs) have a combination of digestive enzymes and digestive microbes that enable them to extract the nutrients from insoluble dietary fibre (cellulose and some hemicelluloses). But not even these creatures can breakdown lignin, an insoluble fibre in plant stems and leaves and the predominant fibre in wood.
But just because you can’t digest dietary fibre doesn’t mean it isn’t a valuable part of your diet. The opposite is true. Dietary fibre is valuable because you can’t digest it!
The two kinds of dietary fibre For further information please download the fact sheet here
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