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meal marker

noun

meal marker

noun
1

Medicine, Sciences A substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the segments of the digestive tract.

  • The incorporation of guar gum into a radiolabelled homogenised meal in rats delayed the delivery of the meal marker from the stomach into the small intestine and also from the small intestine into the colon.2013, Thomas F. Schweizer, Christine A. Edwards, Dietary Fibre — A Component of Food: Nutritional Function in Health and Disease, page 188:

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