cereal with maize
#6464 - 04/19/03 11:24 AM
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Ian
Reged: 01/29/03
Posts: 21
Loc: United Kingdom
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Can anyone tell me whether maize contains soluble or insoluble fibre?
I've found a breakfast cereal on the Tesco (UK based supermarket) web site which sounds interesting. Here's some of the info from the web page.
Quaker Oat Krunchies 375g
Crunchy pillows of delicious oat cereal.
Made from 100% natural ingredients and free from artificial additives.
Ingredients
Oat flour (75%), Maize flour, Sugar, Salt, Malt, Raising Agent (Sodium Bicarbonate)
Nutritional Information (Per 30g serving)
Fat: 2.1g
Of Which Saturates: 0.3g
Fibre: 1.7g
Cheers.
Ian
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Hi Ian - Maize flour is just finely ground corn flour, and it should be just fine for IBS. Corn meal and corn flour have either had the insoluble fiber (from the corn kernel) removed, or it's ground so very finely that it's quite tolerable. The interior of the corn is soluble fiber, and that remains.
The cereal sounds great - enjoy!
- Heather
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hominony grits are ground corn too, i believe. So I reckon thats ibs safe too?
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Ian,
I have Quaker Oat Krunchies for breakfast nearly every day and find them great. I can even tolerate them with skimmed milk. (And I get them from Tesco - the cheapest I've found them in a supermarket!)
They are not too sweet either, some of the other 'safe' cereals like corn pops are too sweet for me in the morning.
Happy breakfast-time!
Sarah
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Sarah
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Thanks for your replies.
I'm really looking forward to trying the new breakfast cereal sometime soon. It's always a good feeling to be introducing a new, safe food into the diet.
Thanks again.
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