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High fibre foods start to gain much attention in the industrial world, due to its importance in human health for treating and prevention wide range of diseases. Finding new and cheap source of dietary fibre is highly needed. Palm kernel cake which is wastes produced after oil extraction from palm kernels is increasing in volume as the oil palm industry expands in many parts of Asia and Africa. The aim of this study is to compare the nutritional composition of palm kernel fibre derived from PKC samples: Supercritical carbon dioxide - palm kernel cake with testa (SC-PKt), supercritical carbon dioxide-palm kernel cake without testa (SC-PK), and palm kernel cake from palm oil mill. Supercritical carbon dioxide was used to extract the residual oil from Palm kernel with and without testa at temperature of 80 °C and pressure 41.36 MPa. Total dietary fibre, crude fibre, crude protein, ash and moisture were determined in these …