What is the function of dietry fiber?

Answer 1

Soluble fiber has been shown to reduce bad cholesterol levels. Insoluble fibers help clean out your intestines and improve intestinal health.

Dietary fiber also helps fill you up without calories, and slows down absorption of calories.

Answer 2

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The main function of dietary fiber is to change the nature of the contents of the gastrointestinal tract, and to change how other nutrients and chemicals are absorbed.

Soluble fiber binds to bile acids in the small intestine, making them less likely to enter the body; this in turn lowers cholesterol levels in the blood. Soluble fiber also attenuates the absorption of sugar, reduces sugar response after eating, normalizes blood lipid levels and, once fermented in the colon, produces short-chain fatty acids as byproducts with wide-ranging physiological activities (discussion below). Insoluble fiber is associated with reduced Diabetes risk, but the mechanism by which this occurs is unknown.[21]•Not yet formally proposed as an essential macronutrient, dietary fiber is nevertheless regarded as important for the diet, with regulatory authorities in many developed countries recommending increases in fiber intake

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Answer 3

Dietary fiber, dietary fibre or sometimes roughage and ruffage are the indigestible portion of food derived from plants and waste of animals that eat dietary fiber There are two main components