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| Domain | Definition |
Health | The remnants of plant cell walls that are resistant to digestion by the alimentary enzymes of man. It comprises various polysaccharides and lignins. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dietary fibers are long-chain carbohydrates that are indigestible by the human digestive tract. The value of dietary fiber is that it provides bulk to the bolus moving through the digestive tract. There are two great advantages to this: by bulking up the bolus, eventually the stool, it's easier for the digestive system to move it through, and the bulkier stool also tends to retain moisture to make it easier to eliminate with less straining and abrasion.
There are two principal types of dietary fiber: soluble and insoluble. Insoluble fiber is simply bulk that changes little as it passes through the body. Soluble fiber, on the other hand, forms a soft gel in solution with water. Soluble fiber has been shown to be able to reduce blood cholesterol levels and slows the absorption of glucose from the intestine.
However, massive amounts of soluble fiber can cause diarrhea and irritable bowel syndrome.
Soluble fiber is found in some fruits (particularly orangess, also appless and bananas), oats, legumes (peas, soybeans, and other beans), other vegetables, such as broccoli and carrots, and a grain called psyllium. Legumes also typically contain shorter-chain carbohydrates that are indigestible by the human digestive tract but which are digested by bacteria in the small intestine, which is a cause of flatulence.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dietary fiber."
Crosswords: DIETARY FIBER |
| Specialty definitions using "DIETARY FIBER": Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1991. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Shown is an ad of General Mills' cereal Fiber One. The ad states that eating a well balanced high fiber, low fat diet may reduce the risk of certain types of lower digestive tract cancers, and also recommends a diet with 25-30 grams of dietary fiber a day. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Emphasize foods high in dietary fiber. (references) | |
Dietary fiber is plant material that is resistant to enzymes produced by humans. (references) | ||
In normal weight people, there is no evidence that manipulation of dietary constituents (e.g., reducing refined carbohydrates or increasing complex carbohydrates or increasing dietary fiber) influences the risk of NIDDM. (references) | ||
Business | When a food product contains 15 percent or more of vitamins or minerals or 10 percent or more of dietary fiber or protein of the set reference values, it is classified into a nutritional supplement under the special nutritional food category. (references) | |
On April 29, 2000, KFDA announced expanded nutrient reference values of 32 nutrients including starch, fat, protein, dietary fiber, saturated fats, 13 vitamins and 13 minerals under Nutrient Reference Values Regarding Nutritional Labeling of Food'. (references) | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dietary fiber | 259 |
source of dietary fiber | 10 |
dietary fiber supplement | 9 |
food high in dietary fiber | 6 |
chart dietary fiber | 4 |
dietary fiber food | 2 |
dietary fiber type | 2 |
dietary fiber food high | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "DIETARY FIBER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Danish | kostfibre (ballast, bulk, bulking agents, crude fiber, dietary fibres, indigestible material, unavailable carbohydrates). (various references) | ||||||||||
Dutch | voedingsvezel (crude fiber, dietary fibres, fibre, unavailable carbohydrates). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | fibres alimentaires (dietary fibres). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Nahrungsmittelfasern (crude fiber, dietary fibres, unavailable carbohydrates), Faserstoffe in Nahrungsmitteln (crude fiber, dietary fibres, unavailable carbohydrates). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | fibre alimentari (crude fiber, dietary fibres, unavailable carbohydrates), fibra alimentare (fibre). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 食物繊維 (dietary fibre). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょくもつせ"い (dietary fibre). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ietaryday iberfay fibras alimenticias (crude fiber, dietary fibres, unavailable carbohydrates). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DIETARY FIBER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dietary fibre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-f-i-i-r-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: beatified, terrified. | |
-4 letters: aerified, bartered, betrayed, betrayer, defrayer, diatribe, draftier, driftier, firebird, firebrat, rabidity, raftered, rarefied, rarified, ratified, ratifier, rebaited, teaberry. | |
-5 letters: arbiter, aridity, barefit, beadier, beatify, bedirty, beeyard, berated, berried, braider, briefed, briefer, debater, debrief, deifier, dietary, dirtier, draftee, drafter, drifter, edifier, fatbird, ferrate, ferrety, ferried, ferrite, fibered, fierier, rarebit, readier, rebated. | |
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