The word 'roughage' is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to dietary fiber or the indigestible parts of plants that help with digestion and prevent constipation. Example: It is important to include plenty of roughage in your diet, such as fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, to maintain good digestive health.
Not that people have much idea what many of these products do to their bodies: at least they sound healthy.Organics (see article) are no longer confined to roughage and knobbly carrots.
But in the craggy land between Ramallah and Jerusalem, there is one variety of that plain vegetable that invariably attracts a crazed following at this time of year.Every winter stands manned by farmers pop up along most of the West Bank's winding roads, with proud growers displaying vivid yellow bouquets wreathed in green roughage.
Insoluble fibre does not dissolve in water and provides bulk, or roughage, that helps with bowel function (regularity) and accelerates the exit from the body of potentially carcinogenic or otherwise harmful substances in food.
Constipation, a condition characterized by the difficult passage of relatively dry, hardened feces, may arise from insufficient dietary fibre (roughage) or other dietary factors, such as taking calcium or iron supplements, in addition to daily routines that preclude relaxation.
Pica a hunger for nonnutritive substances may be a symptom of the need for more roughage in the diet or of feline leukemia or other health problems.
Ruminant (cud-chewing) animals such as cattle, sheep, and goats convert large quantities of pasture forage, harvested roughage, or by-product feeds, as well as nonprotein nitrogen such as urea, into meat, milk, and wool.
A large and ever-growing number of horses stabled in cities and suburbs where sufficient roughages cannot be grown provide a large market for complete horse rations, including roughage, which are tailored to the total needs of specific animals according to their particular function at a given time, such as growth, pregnancy, lactation, or maintenance.
To put it simply, part of this roughage is fermentable, and in other words, it becomes a food for our friendly gut bacteria, and the non-fermentable part enhances bowel movement and stool consistency.
The economics of modern cattle finishing encourages the use of all-concentrate rations or a minimum of roughage, or roughage substitutes including oyster shells, sand, and rough plastic pellets.
Sheep are excellent foragers and, being ruminants, can utilize both pasture forage and harvested roughage.
