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The contribution of breakfast cereals to non‐starch polysaccharide intakes in English men and women
Author(s) -
Emmett P. M.,
Symes C. L.,
Heaton K. W.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of human nutrition and dietetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.951
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1365-277X
pISSN - 0952-3871
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-277x.1993.tb00365.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bran , starch , breakfast cereal , population , food science , food frequency questionnaire , dietary fibre , vitamin , environmental health , biology , raw material , ecology
Seven hundred and thirty‐nine men aged 40–69 years and 976 women aged 25–69 years (65% of a stratified random sample of the population) answered a validated food‐frequency questionnaire focused on carbohydrates and which included questions on breakfast cereal eating and smoking habits. Increased intakes of non‐starch polysaccharide (NSP) in breakfast cereals were associated with higher intakes of NSP from other sources, and also with higher intakes of vitamin C and with less smoking. Insoluble NSP intakes were doubled in people eating bran‐enriched cereals regularly, compared with those who did not eat such cereal. The government target for the population of an average NSP intake of 18 g/day was consistently met only by people eating whole‐grain or bran‐enriched cereals regularly.