Q. What do you mean by Dietary fibre?
Dietary fibre is an imporatant ingredient in food and comprises of a diverse group of plant substances viz. celluloses, hemicelluloses, lignins, gums, mucilages and phenolic compounds which are resistant to hydrolysis by digestive enzymes of the human gut regions.
Crude fibre and hemicellulose are the major components of dietary fibre as crude fibre itself is made up of cellulose and lignin.