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• TITLE: Soluble and Insoluble Fiber in Some Amazonian Fruits with Low Energy Density

  AUTHORS: Jaime Paiva Lopes Aguiar, Francisca das Chagas do Amaral Souza

  KEYWORDS: Dietary Fiber, Regional Fruits, Proximate Composition

  JOURNAL NAME: Food and Nutrition Sciences, Vol.5 No.14, August 22, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Fruits are unarguably one of the main sources of dietary fiber, but are regional Amazonian fruits sources of dietary fiber? The objective of the present study was to assess the nutritional characteristics and fiber contents of fresh fruits with low energy density. The study fruits wereabiu, bacuri, carambola, ingá-cipó, mapati, and taperebá acquired from the National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA) and collected along kilometers 08 and 60 of highway BR174, AM-Brasil. Ash, protein, lipid, carbohydrate, energy and fiber contents were determined three times. The six fruits have very small and significantly different protein contents (p