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Plant Cell Walls as Dietary Fibre: Range, Structure, Processing and Function
Author(s) -
McDougall Gordon J,
Morrison Ian M,
Stewart Derek,
Hillman John R
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0010(199602)70:2<133::aid-jsfa495>3.0.co;2-4
Subject(s) - cell wall , dietary fibre , cell structure , food science , ingestion , plant cell , cell , structure function , chemistry , biology , botany , biochemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , physics , particle physics , gene
The ingestion of dietary fibre has been correlated with the prevention of many health‐threatening diseases and cancers. Plant cell walls are the major source of dietary fibre and this review investigates the relationship between the structure of different types of plant cell walls and their beneficial effects. The effects of processing and cooking on dietary fibre are also examined. Structure–function relationships between individual cell wall components and the beneficial effects of dietary fibre are not well defined and it may be that the physical, physiochemical and topochemical properties of plant cell walls and their components are also important.