Abstract
This paper attempts to explain the role of vegetable dietary fibre in human nutrition. The epidemiological and animal evidence that vegetable fibre does have an important biological role is reviewd. A hypothesis is proposed which suggests that the role of the fibre can be related to its physico-chemical properties and to the alterations in bacterial metabolism which may take place as a consequence of the presence of the fibre.
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