Dietary Fiber from Beets

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In the 1980s, several beet companies developed edible fiber from beet pulp to take advantage of interest in the health benefits of dietary fiber.65 The fiber has a high waterholding capacity and other interesting properties, but the market has remained small and specialized, with uses as a fiber additive in both human and pet food. 

Other organic fiber products which are mostly used in foods as dietary ballast additives are made from wheat, oats, tomato, apples, and citrus. Such dietary fibers are non-starch polysaccharides obtained from cell walls only, which can not be broken down by the digestive enzymes of the human organism and, therefore, constitute inert ballast materials. Color, taste, and odor relate to the fiber source. Unlike cereal brans or dietary fibers derived from, for example, sugar beets, which are often rejected by consumers because of their specific taste, wheat, oat, tomato, apple, and citrus fibers offer physiological properties that are much more readily accepted. 

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