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Dietary Reference Intakes: Proposed Definition of Dietary Fiber (2001)
Institute of Medicine (IOM)

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TABLE 3 Characteristics of Various Dietary Fiber Definitions a

Reference

Nondigestible Animal CHOs b

CHOs Not Recovered by Alcohol Precipitation c

Nondigestible Mono- and Disaccharides

Trowell et al., 1976

No

Not considered

Not considered

Health and Welfare Canada, 1985

No

Not considered

Not considered

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), 1987 d

Yes

Some inulin

No

Life Sciences Research Office (LSRO), 1987

No

No

No

Health Canada, 1988

Yes

Implied e

Not considered

Anonymous, 1989 (Germany)

No

No

No

Anonymous, 1992 (Belgium)

Yes

Yes

No

Anonymous, 1993 (Italy)

No

Yes

No

FAO/WHO, 1995 (Codex Alimentarius Commission) d

Yes

Some inulin

No

Jian-xian, 1995 (China)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Denmark, 1995 d, f

Yes

Some inulin

No

Ministry of Health and Welfare, 1996 (Japan) d

Yes

Yes

No

Committee on Medical Aspects of Foods (COMA), 1998 (United Kingdom) d

Yes

No

No

Finland, 1998 d, f

Yes

Labeled separately, some inulin

No

Norway, 1998 d, f

Yes

Inulin and oligofructose

No

Sweden, 1999 d, f

Yes

Someinulin

No

American Association of Cereal Chemists (AACC), 2000

Yes

Yes

No

Hignett, 2000 (U.K. Food Standards Agency) c

Yes

Some inulin

No

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