bread, used as reference, showed a digestion value of about
50% after 180 min, which agrees with data reported in the
original protocol (Granfeldt et al., 1992). Control bread
baked in the laboratory exhibited a 34.7% hydrolysis at
180 min, which was higher than in both cookies. Control
cookie was digested more rapidly that it’s MDF-containing
counterpart (32.4 vs. 23.0% after 180 min). In similar
experiments testing another cereal product (corn tortilla) a
38.86% hydrolysis was recorded after 180 min (Sa´ yago-
Ayerdi et al., 2005), which is markedly higher than those
determined in the cereal products studied here.