Nutrition Labeling: How to Label Dietary Fiber for Food Products in China?

Despite not being specified as one of the four core nutrients that must be labeled in GB 28050-2011 General Rules for Nutrition Labeling of Prepackaged Foods, dietary fiber plays an important role in human health due to its functional benefits. Consumers nowadays are more and more concerned with their intakes of dietary fiber from diverse food products. Food enterprises thus are more willing to indicate the content of dietary fiber on food labels. So how to label dietary fiber on food labels while ensuring compliance with Chinese legislations?