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meal marker

meal marker noun: a substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the segments of the digestive tract.

Noun

meal marker (plural meal markers)

  1. 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

Forms of meal marker

pluralmeal markers

Questions about meal marker

What does meal marker mean?
Meal marker means a substance added to food to allow the measurement of how quickly it passes through the segments of the digestive tract.
What part of speech is meal marker?
Meal marker is a noun.
What is the plural of meal marker?
The plural of meal marker is meal markers.

Words near meal marker in the dictionary

  1. meaks
  2. meal
  3. meal deal
  4. meal deals
  5. meal maker
  6. meal marker
  7. meal markers
  8. meal moth
  9. meal moths
  10. meal prep
  11. meal station

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