Wheat bran, as the resource of dietary fiber: a review
Wen Cheng, Yujie Sun, Mingcong Fan, Yan Li, Li Wang, Haifeng Qian
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Abstract
Wheat bran is a major by-product of white flour milling and had been produced in large quantities around the world; it is rich in dietary fiber and had already been used in many products such as whole grain baking or high dietary fiber addition. It has been confirmed that a sufficient intake of dietary fiber in wheat bran with appropriate physiological functions is beneficial to human health. Wheat bran had been considered as the addition with a large potential for improving the nutritional condition of the human body based on the dietary fiber supplement. The present review summarized the available information on wheat bran related to its dietary fiber functions, which may be helpful for further development of wheat bran as dietary fiber resource.
Extracted Claims
3 claims extracted from this paper into the knowledge graph
dietary fiber in wheat bran is beneficial to human health
“It has been confirmed that a sufficient intake of dietary fiber in wheat bran with appropriate physiological functions is beneficial to human health.”
wheat bran has potential for improving nutritional condition
“Wheat bran had been considered as the addition with a large potential for improving the nutritional condition of the human body based on the dietary fiber supplement.”
wheat bran is rich in dietary fiber
“Wheat bran is a major by-product of white flour milling and had been produced in large quantities around the world; it is rich in dietary fiber.”