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More fibre in your diet? Hutton science can help

More fibre in your diet? Hutton science can help

Barley, a fibre-rich crop (c) James Hutton Institute
"As part of the Institute’s recent Tay Cities International Barley Hub success, Hutton researchers are targeting alternative dietary fibres in barley and this could expand the use of barley in our diet besides whisky and beer"
Fibre-rich barley products (c) James Hutton Institute

Most of us need to get more fibre into our diets, we now hear, but we’re also told that it’s quite hard to do that. Happily, our scientists have been working on ways to help get past that difficulty, through several strands of research with industry on plant-derived dietary fibre.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute