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Fibre
What refining removes, and marketing re-sells

Dietary fibre is the part of plant food your gut bacteria digest instead of you. It slows sugar absorption, which is why whole wheat and maida — identical calories — behave differently in your blood. Refining grain strips most of it out.

What the institutions say
ICMR-NIN
~40 g dietary fibre per 2,000 kcal/day
FSSAI
Fibre claims ("source of", "high") require minimum g per 100 g thresholds
How it appears on the label

"Multigrain" means several grains, not whole grains — five refined flours still make a refined product. The word to find is "whole": whole wheat, whole jowar.

Brown bread's colour can come from caramel colour (E150) rather than whole grain. The fibre number and the first ingredient settle it.

Genuinely whole-grain products typically show 6–10+ g fibre per 100 g; refined ones show 1–3 g. The number is hard to fake.

In numbers you can picture
100 g whole wheat atta ≈ 11 g fibre · 100 g maida ≈ 2.7 g — the cost of refining
100 g oats ≈ 10 g fibre
A fruit juice has ~0 g — the fibre stayed in the discarded pulp; the fruit had it, the juice does not
What Falose does with it

Fibre earns a positive offset under the same cap as protein: it can improve a decent product's score, but cannot rescue a high-load one. The cap exists because "added fibre" is cheap and was the first thing our own gaming tests tried.

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