Dietary Fiber And Functional Foods

The modification and application of dietary fiber in foods is reviewed with respect to definition and classification and methods for measurement extraction and modification of dietary fiber.
Dietary fiber and functional foods. Dietary fiber and phenolic compounds are two recognized dietary factors responsible for potential effects on human health. Finally the benefits and risks of increasing consumption. Dietary fiber also known as roughage or bulk includes the parts of plant foods your body can t digest or absorb.
They may have some of the benefits of naturally occurring dietary fiber such as helping to prevent constipation or lowering blood glucose levels after meals. Functional fibers are isolated nondigestible forms of carbohydrate that have been extracted from starchy foods or manufactured from starches or sugars. This chapter mainly summarizes the sources of dietary fibers and how they act as functional food for benefiting the human health.
Functional foods are typically high in important nutrients including vitamins minerals healthy fats and fiber. But if you don t get enough from your diet fiber supplements can help fill in the gap. Therefore they have been widely used to increase functionality of some foods.
Dietary fibers and their role as functional food for human health. Filling your diet with a variety of functional foods including both. Influence of different processing treatments like extrusion cooking canning grinding.
Unlike other food components such as fats proteins or carbohydrates which your body breaks down and absorbs fiber isn t digested by your body. Dietary fiber plays an important role in human health. Most nutritionists say to get fiber from whole foods because they re healthy in other ways too.
Food fibers and human health. Dietary fibers could be.