Individual Sugars, Soluble, and Insoluble Dietary FiberContents of 70 High Consumption Foods.
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Individual Sugars, Soluble, and Insoluble Dietary Fiber
Contents of 70 High Consumption Foods.
Introduction
Glucose is a simple sugar and an important carbohydrate in biology. Glucose is one of the
main products of photosynthesis and it also starts cellular respiration. But do you know how
many saccharide our food contains?
Main body
At the beginning different products were analyzed such as baked products, cereal grains and
pasta, fruits, legumes and vegetables were purchased for analysis. This kind of method is
named sampling.
One of the important methods of analysis is sample preparation. Non-edible parts of fruits
and vegetables, such as stem, core, seeds, and skin, were removed before further sample
preparation. In this method all vegetables were cooked in the microwave. Equal weight
portions of the same food were composited and blended to a homogenous mixture. Frozen
samples were further dried in vacuum before analysis....