EC Paediatrics

Mini Review Volume 12 Issue 8 - 2023

Dietary Fiber and Labeling in Packaged Foods: An Essential Combination

Nilton Carlos Machado1*, Juliana Tedesco Dias1, Thabata Koester Weber2, Carine Dias Ferreira de Jesus3 and Mary Assis Carvalho1

1Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Botucatu Medical School - São Paulo State University, Brazil
2Department of Human Sciences and Nutrition and Food Sciences, Institute of Biosciences - São Paulo State University, Brazil
3Postgraduate Student Researcher of Botucatu Medical School, Sao Paulo State University, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil

*Corresponding Author: Nilton Carlos Machado, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Botucatu Medical School - São Paulo State University, Brazil.
Received: July 14, 2023; Published: July 31, 2023




The preagricultural diets considered by hunting and gathering foods consisted of meat, fish, and uncultivated grains, such as nuts, seeds, fruit, and vegetables with higher-fiber content. This period was finished about 10,000 years ago. Long after, during the industrial revolution, when the invention of the steel roller milling system provided an economical process to convert whole grain to white flour at a reasonable price, it resulted in a significant shift to today's lower-fiber bakery products. In the 1960s and 1970s, the dietary fiber hypothesis was developed and postulated that fiber intake was inversely associated with Western diseases. Then, since the mid-1970s, interest in the role of Dietary Fiber in health and nutrition has motivated extensive research and received considerable public attention. Today, supplementing foods with dietary fiber can result in fitness-promoting foods that are lower in calories, cholesterol, and fat. The beneficial health actions of dietary fiber occur in the human gut, and the main components and most significant physicochemical, physiological activity, and characteristics of the sources of dietary fiber must be known for an excellent approach to the patient to improve dietary fiber intake. In addition, essential changes in the food industry have altered consumer eating behavior in recent years. Increasingly busy consumers have limited time to prepare meals, and, at the same time, there is a growing interest in a healthy diet, creating a need for ready-to-eat products. The food industry works to meet consumers' desires concerning foods that bring health benefits, in addition to aspects such as taste and appearance. Therefore, the importance of descriptive analysis of these products, generating complete information on dietary fiber requires clear information about its use. Consequently, packaged food labels must display nutrient content information to guide healthy food choices. Thus, nutritional labeling analysis can guarantee quality information for the consumer and potentially positively influence diet.

Keywords: Dietary Fiber; Food Label; Food Industry; Fitness-Promoting Foods; Dietary Fiber in Health

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Nilton Carlos Machado., et al. Dietary Fiber and Labeling in Packaged Foods: An Essential Combination. EC Paediatrics 12.8 (2023): 01-10.

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