'Dietary fiber', 'dietary fibre' or sometimes 'roughage' is the indigestible portion of plant foods having two main components: * 'soluble' (prebiotic, viscous) fiber that is readily fermented in the colon into gases and physiologically active byproducts, and * 'insoluble' fiber that is metabolically inert, absorbing water as it moves through the digestive system, easing defecation. It acts by cha ...
Dietary Fiber
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