FIBRE CONCEPTS

There seems to be no doubt that some people think that fibre is the apple peelings, the bran, the ‘wrappings’ of plant foods and even the skin and tendons of meat that were once removed in food preparation and were considered to ‘have no goodness’. This led to the belief that ‘fibre foods’ are the bulky, coarse unrefined foods. Many food scientists would say that the people who think in this way have an inaccurate concept of fibre and many educationists would say they have some facets of the fibre concept but not all the important ones.