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(57) [Summary] [PROBLEMS] To easily add necessary dietary fiber to noodles, bakery foods, and snack foods, which are likely to cause a problem when dietary fiber is contained, and to add no dietary fiber. Disclosed is a dietary fiber-enhancing composition capable of producing a food having a quality equal to or better than that of the composition, and a food having a good quality reinforced with dietary fiber using the composition. A low-viscosity water-soluble dietary fiber is 7 to 50% by weight. And the average degree of substitution of the hydroxypropyl group is 0.02 to A dietary fiber reinforcing composition comprising 50 to 93% by weight of starch having a ratio of 0.2. |