20世纪50年代的营养学中尚没有“膳食纤维”这一名词。1955年美国官方分析化学家协会(AOAG)认可的分析方法也是测定膳食中的“粗纤维”。虽然1953年Hipsley首先提出了“膳食纤维”(dietaryfiber)的名词,其含义为植物细胞壁中不可消化的成分,以区别于“粗纤维”。在营养学中,粗纤维是对人体健康不起营养作用的一种非营养成分,一直未受 Nutrition in the 1950s still did not have the term “dietary fiber.” The method of analysis approved by the American Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAG) in 1955 was also to determine “crude fiber” in the diet. Although Hipsley first proposed the term “dietary fiber” in 1953, it was defined as an indigestible component of the cell wall of a plant distinguished from “crude fiber.” In nutrition, crude fiber is a non-nutritive component of human nutrition has not been affected by