Consumer demand for healthy foods is another tendency
observed nowadays. Dietary fibre is an important component in the
definition of a healthy diet A low intake of dietary fibre has been associated with a broad spectrum of nurelated non-infectious diseases, such as diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, circulation-related diseases, and metabolic diseases Dietary fibres can be water soluble or insoluble influencing water behaviour during freezing and frozen
storage of bakery products Depending on the ratio of insoluble to soluble fibres , they can also interfere in the baking processes of partbaked breads by retarding starch gelatinization