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Dietary Fiber

Known as: Fibers, Dietary, Bulk, Dietary Fibers 
In food, fiber is the part of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains that cannot be digested. The fiber in food may help prevent cancer. In… 
National Institutes of Health

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CarbohydratesCatharticsColonic DiseasesConstipation

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CelluloseLigninMF-D-80Mede-Prep

Broader (4)

Miscellaneous chemical agentPlant fiberdietary constituentfood product

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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
Development of an ingredient containing apple peel, as a source of polyphenols and dietary fiber.
Apple peel is a waste product from dried apple manufacture. The content of phenolic compounds, dietary fiber, and mineral are… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Effects of varying content of soluble dietary fibre from wheat flour and oat milling fractions on gastric emptying in pigs
Abstract Four pigs fitted with a gastric cannula were fed on a wheat-flour-based diet (WF) and three oat-based diets, consisting… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Metabolic responses to starch in oat and wheat products. On the importance of food structure, incomplete gelatinization or presence of viscous dietary fibre.
OBJECTIVE Evaluate the importance of incomplete gelatinization, food structure and presence of viscous dietary fibre for the… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Medicinal and therapeutic value of the shiitake mushroom.
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Physical activity and colon cancer: A case‐referent study in Stockholm
A population‐based case‐referent study on physical activity (during working and recreational hours) and colon cancer was… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Does dietary fibre stimulate intestinal epithelial cell proliferation in germ free rats?
The aim of the present experiment was to investigate the role of hind gut fermentation in the proliferative response of the… 
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Effects of an elemental diet, inert bulk and different types of dietary fibre on the response of the intestinal epithelium to refeeding in the rat and relationship to plasma gastrin, enteroglucagon…
Refeeding starved rats with an elemental diet resulted in a marked increase in crypt cell production rate (CCPR) in the proximal… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
The effect of age, sex and level of intake of dietary fibre from wheat on large-bowel function in thirty healthy subjects
1. To evaluate the effect of age, sex and level of intake on the colonic response to wheat fibre, thirty healthy volunteers aged… 
Review
1982
Review
1982
Zinc nutriture in the elderly in relation to taste acuity, immune response, and wound healing.
A comprehensive review is presented concerning the role of zinc (Zn) nutrition in taste acuity, immunity and wound recovery in… 
Review
1976
Review
1976
A guide to calculating intakes of dietary fibre.
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