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National Academies of Science definitions relating to food fibre only add confusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Brendan Donnelly
Brendan Donnelly
Affiliation:
American Association of Cereal Chemists, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St Paul, MN 55121-2097, USA Email: osteigman@scisoc.org
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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 90 , Issue 2 , August 2003 , pp. 481 - 483
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2003

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