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10 May 2001

Further investigations into the dietary fibre content of beers

It is well known that beer occupies an important place among foodstuffs, but its dietary fibre content has hitherto never been mentioned in tables listing food values (3, 9), or - for the sake of simplicity (?) - even a zero value was indicated (4).

Two recent reports of symposia give a multiplicity of further details (5, 6).

Materials and methods

60 German beers drawn from a very broad range were investigated: these included "einfachbier", low gravity beers, "vollbier" and high gravity beers, bottom and top fermented beers and non-alcoholic, low-alcohol and light beers.

To aid understanding, original gravity, alcohol and real extract contents of these beers are also listed. Merck, Darmstadt (1).
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