Today, Camire is working with an AACC committee to devise a single definition for fiber. Interviews are being conducted with academic scientists, industry researchers and government regulators and hope to complete their work by the fall of 2001. Fiber and phenolics Just as important, some of the benefits attributed to fiber may actually be linked to associated compounds known as phenolics. We don't need them to grow. Your hair doesn't fall out if you don't have them.
All plant foods have phenolics and some forms are soluble.
You get them in fruit juice. It's a separate class of plant molecules. It just happens that the way plants grow, phenolics are entwined with fiber molecules. And now we're wondering how much of the benefit of fiber is due to fiber and how much to what's with the fiber. We're seeing more and more work being done on the health benefits of phenolics.