Whats the difference between cellulose and fiber?!
Whats the difference between cellulose and fiber?
and what foods are they in?
Answers:
I don't know if anything counts as fiber that isn't cellulose, although there ARE other polysaccharides that you can't digest (like chitin). It's mostly in unrefined plant foods such as whole grains, beans, vegetables, etc.
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bio major with biomolecular emphasis
Cellulose is part of wood fiber
Don't eat cellulose !
cellulose makes up plant cell walls which is indigestable and fiber is undigestable organic matter which includes cellulose
fiber is usually found in grain based foods and plant foods
I'm assuming you're asking about dietary fiber and cellulose.
Cellulose is a type of dietary fiber. It's the part of the plant cell walls that our bodies can't digest. For example, celery is mostly cellulose.
Dietary fibers include soluble fibers such as pectin... which can be found in apples and is the same stuff used to gel jams and jellies.
20 years ago, there was a health food bread that made claims that it was high in fiber because they added cellulose. It was later discovered the cellulose was from saw dust. Needless to say there was an uproar so they baker stopped that practice. It didn't hurt anyone since we can't digest cellulose. People were just upset that saw dust was put in their food when the baker could have used something else.
hello
cellulose is fat.
fiber makes you go to bathroom.
read the labels.
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