{"id":263238,"date":"2026-02-02T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:17:08","slug":"researchers-calling-for-fibre-to-be-essential-nutrient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/263238\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers calling for fibre to be &#8216;essential nutrient&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/4JV9V3U_melissa_di_rocco_caPcNn41FnY_unsplash_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Oats are rich in beta-glucan, a type of soluble fibre that forms a gel-like substance when mixed with water.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nOats are rich in beta-glucan, a type of soluble fibre that forms a gel-like substance when mixed with water.<br \/>\nPhoto: Unsplash\n<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are calling for dietary fibre to be deemed an &#8216;essential nutrient&#8217;, which they say would recognise its importance for people&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, it would be the first new essential nutrient in more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Kathryn talks to Otago University Professor Sir Jim Mann, who says consuming fibre has significant health benefits and many of us are not getting enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oats are rich in beta-glucan, a type of soluble fibre that forms a gel-like substance when mixed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[48,47,134,111,43,139,556,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-263238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nutrition","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}