What is Roughage?Also write it function.
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One of the main benefits of eating roughage is that it helps to regulate your digestion. Insoluble fiber provides bulk in your intestines and helps to keep food moving through your digestive tract. Insoluble fiber absorbs water and swells into a gel that helps to keep bowel movements soft and easy to pass.
Roughage is the fibrous part of food which can not be completely absorbed or broken down by digestive enzymes present in our body. These are carbohydrates present in different types of foods.
Roughage doesn't help in providing nourishment to our body but plays various different function:
● The main function of roughage is to retain water in our body.
● It is helpful in retaining the bulk of faeces and prevents constipation making the process digestion in our body easy.
● It is helpful in passage of food through our digestive system.