the same way as cereals and, as previously mentioned, they have comparable dietary fibre contents, however, the monosaccharide composition of quinoa and amaranth indicates that these IDFs does not contain xylans as found in cereals, and, instead, resemble that of tissues from fruits, vegetables, and leguminous seeds. An important difference between these pseudocereals and fruits and vegetables is that dietary fibre in pseudocereal seeds is dehydrated as opposed to the hydrated tissues from fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are usually consumed in a state, in which the tissues are haracterised by high water content and low amounts of lignin (Eastwood,1992), which helps explain their lower dietary fibre contents