Re: I Don't Get It??????????!
10/14/03 01:53 PM
|
|
|
|
Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
|
|
|
Hi - don't go by fiber charts so much as the "smushable" rule. Sounds silly, but if a food smushes easily, and you could force it through a sieve, that's a good indication that it's soluble fiber. Think of cooked carrots and potatoes, bananas, applesauce, white rice, corn meal, cooked noodles or barley, etc. Or if you can dissolve it in water and it will form a gel (white bread, cooked rice, pasta, oatmeal, etc.)
If the food isn't smushable and wouldn't dissolve in water, you can assume it's more insoluble fiber (think apple peels, spinach leaves, cucumber seeds, any fruit or veggie that's got a hull or seeds or skins or is fibrous).
The diet is really not limited - you can eat tons of insoluble fiber foods, you just have to do so carefully. Get a soluble fiber base, and you can add in plenty of the fresh fruits and veggies you need.
Also, check here for info on soluble/insoluble quantity in grams vs. amounts you actually need for stability web page
- Heather
--------------------
Heather is the Administrator of the IBS Message Boards. She is the author of Eating for IBS and The First Year: IBS, and the CEO of Heather's Tummy Care. Join her IBS Newsletter. Meet Heather on Facebook!
Print
Remind Me
Notify Moderator
|
|
Posts
