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Fiber is divided into two types; dissolvable and insoluble fiber. Dissolvable fiber cannot be digested by digestion enzyme, but it is hot water soluble. This fiber can make your stomach full longer and give energy that is longer and useful to reduce the cholesterol level in your blood. Commonly, you can find it in fruits and vegetables.
Meanwhile, insoluble fiber cannot be digested and it is insoluble to hot water. However, even though this nutrient cannot be digested, it has an important function for body metabolism.
In the digestion, this nutrient can help fermentation process of food concentrates. It is useful to prevent constipation and the risk to get cancer in stomach. You can find it in vegetables like asparagus, leguminous, and cereal.
Because this nutrient is dissolvable, it enters large intestine in a whole. It achieves large intestine in big volume and needs a large place, so it can make you full. Because of that, fiber in an interior cavity and digestion canal will reduce your will to eat in big portion. As a result, it can avoid the risk for you to get obesity.
In addition, high fiber food helps reduce the cholesterol in blood. Fiber is also useful to restrain water and viscosity in digestion canal to be changed into gel in intestine. As a result, you are not hungry easily.
Related to vegetable as the source of fiber, you can find it in your daily menu. It can be consumed in raw type or processed type through boiling the food.
A study shows that the food fiber in vegetable that is cooked is more than that in raw vegetable. Indeed, the cooking process can lose some nutrients, but it can also cause the vegetable to be brown. In this case, brown means that the vegetable has higher fiber.
