Abstract
In four feeding trials with male Wistar rats the influences on serum cholesterol of several preparations of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) from sugar beet were determined. These include a commercial product called Beta-fibre, hot water insoluble and soluble sugar-beet NSP (both pectic and hemicellulosic fractions) and a commercially developed pectic-hemicellulosic sugar-beet NSP called Fibre N. Animals were fed basal diets, both low and high in cholesterol, and intake was limited to circa 80% of ad libitum. The influence of ∼80 g NSP per kg basal diet administered for 28 days was compared with a cellulose control. In one feeding trial the basal low-cholesterol diet was made high in butter fat (230 g per kg). As with ad libitum fed rats reported in the literature, the serum cholesterol concentration did not increase on increasing the saturated fat intake, but doubled when a mixture of cholesterol and cholic acid was added to the diet. Soluble NSP from sugar beet, but not insoluble NSP, was found to be mil...
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