| | | Preface | | |
| | | List of Contributors | | |
| Pt. 1 | | Nutrition and Diet for a Healthy Lifestyle | | 1 |
| 1 | | Nutrition and Diet for Healthy Lifestyles in Europe by Michael J. Gibney | | 3 |
| 2 | | Dietary Advice in North America: the Good, the Bad and the Unheeded by Julie Miller Jones | | 13 |
| Pt. 2 | | Chemistry, Structure and Rheology | | 23 |
| 3 | | Light Microscopic Investigations on Dietary Fibre by Karin Autio | | 25 |
| 4 | | Assembly and Rheology of Non-starch Polysaccharides by Edwin R. Morris | | 30 |
| 5 | | The Structures and Architectures of Plant Cell Walls Define Dietary Fibre Composition and the Textures of Foods by Maria Jesus Pena and Claudia E. Vergara and Nicholas C. Carpita | | 42 |
| Pt. 3 | | Measurement of Dietary Fibre and Dietary Fibre Components | | 61 |
| 6 | | What is Dietary Fibre? A New Look at the Definition by Leon Prosky | | 63 |
| 7 | | Development of Dietary Fibre Methodology by Nils-Georg Asp | | 77 |
| 8 | | Measurement of Dietary Fibre Components: the Importance of Enzyme Purity, Activity and Specificity by Barry V. McCleary | | 89 |
| 9 | | In-vivo and In-vitro Methods for Resistant Starch Measurement by Martine Champ and Francoise Kozlowski and Gerard Lecannu | | 106 |
| Pt. 4 | | Regulatory Issues | | 121 |
| 10 | | Analytical Issues Regarding the Regulatory Aspects of Dietary Fibre Nutrition Labelling by Jonathan W. DeVries | | 123 |
| 11 | | Regulatory Issues Relating to Dietary Fibre in the European Context by Paul Coussement | | 139 |
| Pt. 5 | | Health Benefits of Dietary Fibre | | 147 |
| 12 | | Dietary Fibre in Health and Disease by David Kritchevsky | | 149 |
| 13 | | Dietary Fibre, Carbohydrate Metabolism and Chronic Disease by David J. A. Jenkins and Alexandra L. Jenkins and Cyril W. C. Kendall | | 162 |
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