Are these foods Soluable Fibre or Something else?
#189987 - 06/28/05 07:56 PM
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Starting this diet has brought me accross a couple of foods I'm not sure about. I'm still waiting for my book to arrive from the US and they may not be in it and I didn't see them on the website.
Are these foods soluable fibre?
Puppodums? (ingredients: gram flour, salt, raising agent, rice flour, sunflower oil.
Prawn crackers? (prawn meat and I think tapioca flour?)
Does anyone else have any 'unlisted' soluable foods they know about?
Thanks.
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I would be careful with them. The prawn crackers are probably safe enough to snack on, but I wouldn't use them as a primary source of soluble fiber. The puppodum... not so sure. As far as I know, gram flour is a finely ground whole wheat flour, which would make them more INsoluble than soluble. Also, I'm not sure how much oil is in them, but fat content is something else to watch out for.
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I too thought Gram Flour was originally wheat based, but the label says gluten free and the labelling laws here are very strict when it comes to gluten free...I'm a coeliac and didn't seem to react to it before (but I want to make sure it is soluable).I'm looking for more snack oriented items for soluable fibre as I have the added difficulty of being gluten-free.
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I believe gram flour is from chickpeas/garbanzos. Here's a reference I found: http://www.answers.com/topic/gram-flour.
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I think gram flour, being ground up, along with the rice flour in the poppadums would be enough SF to outway any IF in the food itself. But I would be careful eating them with a lot of IF foods thinking it was a base. I hope this makes sense.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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