FDA to Add Eight Substances to Definition of 'Dietary Fiber' for Food Labeling
The Food and Drug Administration is issuing a new guidance document noting the agency’s intent to add eight carbohydrates to its regulatory definition of “dietary fiber” for the purposes of nutrition facts labeling on food products. FDA will soon revise…
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its regulations to add the following carbohydrates to its dietary fiber definition: mixed plant cell wall fibers; arabinoxylan; alginate; inulin and inulin-type fructans; high amylose starch (resistant starch 2); galactooligosaccharide; polydextrose; and resistant maltodextrin/dextrin. In the meantime, FDA intends to “exercise enforcement discretion” until it issues its final rule on the subject, allowing declarations of dietary fiber on food labeling to include the eight additional carbohydrates. The new dietary fiber definition was added by FDA’s 2016 rule amending its nutrition facts labeling regulations (see 1605200021).