One of the important properties of dietary fiber is their :
susceptibility to fermentation in the colon
Dietary fibre is the plant material (non-starch polysaccharides, resistant starch and lignin) that escapes digestion by human enzymes in the small intestine and reaches the large intestine intact.
In the colon, soluble fibres such as pectins, gums and resistant starch are fermented by the resident bacteria; this fermentability is a defining property of fibre and gives short-chain fatty acids (acetate, propionate, butyrate), gases and increased bacterial mass.
The acids are formed by the colonic bacteria acting on fibre, so producing acetic acid is a consequence of fermentation by microbes, not an ability of the fibre itself.
Fibre yields only about 2 kcal/g (through absorbed fatty acids), not 5 kcal/g, and its classic bowel effect is to add bulk and relieve constipation rather than to prevent diarrhoea.
So the important property of dietary fibre is its susceptibility to fermentation in the colon.
Hence, susceptibility to fermentation in the colon.
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