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Dietary fibers (DF)
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Dietary fibers are a collective term used to identify various polysaccharides and lignin (not all dietary fibers are plant polysaccharides) fractions of foods that are not hydrolyzed by the enzymes of the digestive system, but that are, or might be, hydrolyzed by gut microbiota
They consist of non-starch polysaccharides like cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, beta-glucans, [resistant starches](brain://nhav4mC7N0-x…