TITLE:
Soluble and Insoluble Fiber in Some Amazonian Fruits with Low Energy Density
AUTHORS:
Jaime Paiva Lopes Aguiar, Francisca das Chagas do Amaral Souza
KEYWORDS:
Dietary Fiber, Regional Fruits, Proximate Composition
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.5 No.14,
August
22,
2014
ABSTRACT: Fruits are
unarguably one of the main sources of dietary fiber, but are regional Amazonian
fruits sources of dietary fiber? The objective of the present study was to
assess the nutritional characteristics and
fiber contents of fresh fruits with low energy density. The study fruits wereabiu,
bacuri, carambola, ingá-cipó, mapati, and taperebá
acquired from the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and
collected along kilometers 08 and 60 of highway BR174, AM-Brasil. Ash, protein,
lipid, carbohydrate, energy and fiber contents were determined three times. The
six fruits have very small and significantly different protein contents (p