“Dietary fibre”: moving beyond the “soluble/insoluble” classification for monogastric nutrition, with an emphasis on humans and pigs

Table 3 Dietary fibre content of selected fruits and vegetables (modified from NUTTAB, Food Standards Agency Australia^a)

Fruits	Total DF, g/100g dry matter	Vegetables	Total DF, g/100g dry matter
Apple, with peel	16.7	Beetroot	26.7
Cavendish banana	10.1	Broccoli	34.0
Cherries	8.7	Cabbage, white	30.0
Grapefruit	14.5	Carrot	34.2
Mango	9.4	Celery	29.4
Orange	18.0	Cucumber	15.8
Peach	16.1	Iceberg lettuce	33.3
Pear	21.2	Sweetcorn	22.0
Pineapple	13.6	Tomato	20.7
Strawberry	31.6	Zucchini	23.1
Watermelon	6.4

^aData from Food Standards Agency Australia NUTTAB Release 2010, Last accessed April 19, 2019 from: http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science/monitoringnutrients/nutrientables/nuttab/Pages/default.aspx

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