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meal markers

meal markers is the plural of meal marker.

Meaning of meal marker

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

Questions about meal markers

What is meal markers the plural of?
Meal markers is the plural of meal marker.

Words near meal markers in the dictionary

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

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