What does NSP stand for?

Non-Starch Polysaccharides

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14) Alternatively, the enzymatic-chemical methods identify the non-starch polysaccharides present in food.

Dietary fibre: the vital ingredient

The researchers, who took into account age, sex, smoking and the amount of food eaten, found that the greatest protection came from the levels of non-starch polysaccharides - a major part of dietary fibre - and from fruit and soy in the diet.

Eating fibre protects lungs; Good Health

However, resistant starch may act synergistically with non-starch polysaccharides at levels typically consumed in Australia leading to improvements in faecal bio-markers of colonic function (26).

Resistant starch in the Australian diet