Properties of the fibre
It is not the first time that we treat the thread of the fibre in our health blog, appealing to her like a necessary substance so that our metabolism works correctly. In this occasion, we have assembled the principal properties of the fibre , the most essential and most important for our organization.
This does not mean that the fibre does not have other functions any more, but those that we show you are the most out-standing and most important that the vegetable fibre has.
The first thing that we can do that is to say that the vegetable fibre is the part not digestible nor absorbably of many food of vegetable origin and acts in the intestine.
Therefore, the functions of the fibre are directed and are you relate with the intestine. One of the properties of the fibre is the increase of the dregs, that is to say, that helps you to go to the bath. The fibre has the aptitude to retain water, therefore it increases of volume and provokes the sensation and need to evacuate. Another important property of the fibre is the mentioned capacity of absorver water .
Joined to the previous thing, the fibre has the property of absorver substances , it waters down already not only. This is a very important function, since there can remain absorvidas substances as the cholesterol, the biliary acids or some substances poisonous and harmful to the organization. This prevents the poisonous substances from contacting the intestinal mucous membrane and I helped to your elimination. On the contrary, it is true that there can absorverse important substances as vitamins or minerals (Ca, Zn, Mg or Faith), that they can be eliminated partly by the dregs.
For the mentioned previously, the fibre is important to accelerate the intestinal transit , facilitated by the components not hidrosolubles of the proper vegetable fibre.
In parallel, the fibre hidrosoluble also has the property of diminishing the speed of intestinal absorption , for everything on what we are commenting till now.