Consumers want to achieve better overall health and wellness, and adding more dietary protein and fiber helps. FDA defines dietary fiber as "certain naturally occurring fibers that are 'intrinsic and intact' in plants, and added isolated or synthetic non-digestible soluble and insoluble carbohydrates that FDA has determined have beneficial physiological effects to human health."
At long last, FDA has provided guidance on many dietary fibers. To be clear, the FDA announcement covers about 70–75 percent of common dietary fibers in use today, so more work needs to be done.
Ingredion Incorporated has announced that three of the Company’s fibers have been identified as meeting the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory definition of “dietary fiber” for nutrition facts labels.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently responded to ABA on its citizen petition request specific to the dietary fiber definition as well as announcing its intent to add eight additional fibers for consideration as dietary fiber through future rulemaking.
The widely used dietary fiber meets updated standards of the new Nutritional Facts Panel
June 25, 2018
ADM/Matsutani LLC, the joint venture between Archer Daniels Midland Company, Matsutani Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., and Matsutani America, Inc., has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has included Fibersol on its list of approved dietary fibers.
Results of a human dietary study recently conducted at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, confirm that an extraordinarily high level of dietary fiber exists in MGP’s Fibersym RW resistant wheat starch.
With less than two years to comply with the new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) nutrition labeling rule for fiber, countless food, beverage and supplement manufacturers are nervous about their formulas.
Dr. John’s Candies has launched THRIVE, a new line of sugar-free goodies. First to debut are lollipops that are all natural, contain no sugar and are packed with five grams of fiber.
For over 500 years, we’ve been looking for the fountain of youth—that magical restorative water that will make us look and feel younger. While the fountain has yet to be discovered, we can find some solace in knowing that many of the foods we eat are becoming healthier for us.