Dietary fiber, or fiber for simplicity are key components to a healthy balanced diet, they are always of plant origin. In other words we can not find dietary fiber in meat, fish or dairy products. We talk about dietary fiber, to those found in food.
One can find fiber in more or less all plant foods, however, there are big differences between amount of each vegetable. You will find below the high fiber foods.
Dietary fibers are not assimilated by the human body, because they are not digested by digestive enzymes. Dietary fiber contains no calories because it is not metabolized.
At the chemical level, dietary fibers are polysaccharides, this is called complex carbohydrates or sugars.
Lignin (soluble fiber), however, has a different structure. Continue reading “The balanced dietary fiber”