Dietary fiber

Introduction: Dietary fiber

Description of Dietary fiber

Dietary fiber: plant polysaccharides and lignin that are resistant to hydrolysis by the digestive enzymes in humans.
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Dietary fiber: remnants of plant cell walls that are resistant to digestion by the alimentary enzymes of man; comprises various polysaccharides and lignins.
Source: CRISP

Dietary fiber: The remnants of plant cell walls that are resistant to digestion by the alimentary enzymes of man. It comprises various polysaccharides and lignins.
Source: MeSH 2007

Dietary fiber: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Dietary fiber:

• Dietary
• Fiber
• Plant
• Plant disease
• Lignin
• Hydrolysis
• Digestive
• Digestive symptoms (5299 causes)
• Digestive disease

Terms associated with Dietary fiber:

Terms Similar to Dietary fiber:

• Fiber, Dietary
• Roughage

Source - MeSH 2007

Broader terms for Dietary fiber

• Food

Source - MeSH 2007

• dietary constituent

Source - CRISP

The term Dietary fiber can be used for:

• bran (dietary)
• dietary residue
• roughage

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Dietary fiber

The following list attempts to classify Dietary fiber into categories where each line is subset of the next.

MeSH 2007 Hierarchy:

• Food and Beverages
  • Food
    • Dietary Fiber

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