New Delhi, April 9 -- Did you know fibre impacts weight management? To understand how to define dietary fibre it is important to know that there is no single accepted definition of dietary fibre but a physiologically based description is dietary constituents that are not enzymatically degraded to absorbable subunits in the stomach and small intestine.

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Navneet Deora, PhD in Food at Bluetribe, shared, "Due to the nature of fibres in terms of its functionality and solubility in water it can be broadly classified as soluble or insoluble and fermentable or non-fermentable. Solubility depends on the extent to which the fibre dissolves in water or forms a gel. Fermentability relates to whether the undigeste...