ABSTRACT
In recent years, it has become apparent that our understanding of the nutritional effects of dietary fiber (DF) has been considerably hampered by the lack of an appropriate definition of DF and, consequently, a lack of adequate analytical methods. In the original version of our methodology, Theander and Åman proposed that DF could be defined as the sum of nonstarch (amylase-resistant) polysaccharides and Klason lignin and, in conjunction with this chemical definition, published a gas-chromatographic method for analysis and characterization of DF.
