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Since the inception of the dietary fiber hypothesis, much progress has been made in our understanding of the chemistry and definition of dietary fiber. Recent work has established an accurate method for the determination of dietary fiber based on the chemical definition of nonstarch polysaccharides (Cummings et al., 1981). Nonstarch polysaccharides (NSP) include all the carbohydrate fractions and types of dietary fiber: soluble and insoluble, pectins, gums, hemicelluloses, cellulose, β-glucans, and noncellulosic polysaccharides. The NSP are chemically distinct (Southgate and Englyst, 1985), measurable (Englyst and Cummings, 1984), and, regardless of the physical form of food or cooking and processing, are not hydrolyzed by digestive enzymes in the small gut (Chacko and Cummings, 1988).
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Bingham, S.A. (1990). Starch, Nonstarch Polysaccharides, and the Large Gut. In: Kritchevsky, D., Bonfield, C., Anderson, J.W. (eds) Dietary Fiber. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0519-4_33
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