CHICAGO — The Food and Drug Administration has ruled in favor of 17 ingredients and said they met its dietary fiber definition because of beneficial physiological effects. That number may increase, ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Jan. 10 said it intends to propose that glucomannan meets the agency’s definition of dietary fiber because it has been shown to help reduce blood ...

The Panel on the Definition of Dietary Fiber proposes two definitions to encompass current and future nondigestible carbohydrates in the food supply that are considered to be meaningful subdivisions ...

Purveyors of acacia gum suffered a setback last week as the FDA concluded that they had not (yet) presented sufficient evidence to prove that the ingredient should be classified as a dietary fiber on ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a guidance document that identifies eight ingredients that the agency has determined meet the regulatory definition of “dietary fiber.” Specifically, ...

Since the early 1950s, various definitions of dietary fiber have been proposed by different countries and organizations ( Table 1). In 1953, Hipsley defined dietary fiber as a term for nondigestible ...