Table 1.
Proximate analysis of vegetable dietary fibre concentrates (DFC).
| DFC | Moisture g/100 g fw |
Protein g/100 g dw |
Fat g/100 g dw |
Ash g/100 g dw |
Digestible Carbohydrate g/100 g dw |
Dietary Fibre (DF) g/100 g dw |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artichoke | 3.63 ± 0.32 d | 15.05 ± 0.32 b | 1.80 ± 0.13 b | 6.68 ± 0.15 a | 18.74 ± 0.91 d | 54.73 ± 0.36 a |
| Red Pepper | 10.16 ± 0.16 a | 12.17 ± 0.10 c | 4.77 ± 0.14 a | 4.73 ± 0.18 c | 35.43 ± 0.21 b | 42.90 ± 1.14 b |
| Cucumber | 8.15 ± 0.42 b | 18.52 ± 0.31 a | 1.65 ± 0.16 b | 7.12 ± 0.22 a | 39.01 ± 0.24 c | 33.70 ± 0.83 c |
| Carrot | 5.18 ± 0.22 c | 6.73 ± 0.23 d | 1.73 ± 0.18 b | 5.03 ± 0.12 b | 52.67 ± 0.23 a | 33.84 ± 1.60 c |
fw: fresh weight, dw: dry weight. Different lower-case letters in the same column indicate significant differences among DFC for each nutrient (p < 0.05).