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Article: ADVANCED DIETARY FIBRE TECHNOLOGY.(Review)
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- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Food Trade Press Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Edited by Barry McCleary and Leon Prosky
Published 2001 Hardback 534
Price: [pound]103.00
(UK: Blackwell ScienceLid)
Conceptions of dietary fibre and its role in the human diet have changed extensively in the past 25 years. Official recognition of these changes has come in the form of the recent approval by the American Association of Cereal Chemists of a new definition of dietary fibre which attributes physiological effects aside from laxative properties, and which includes polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, lignin and associated plant substances. Contributors to this volume have played a major role in this transformation through ...