The High Fiber Foods List

Fiber is the parts of plant foods that the body is unable to digest and a neccessary and important part of our daily diets.  Eating a diet rich in fiber helps to lower the risk of heart disease and diabetes.  Other benefits of fiber include lowering cholesterol levels, maintaining healthy blood sugar levels, helping with weight loss, normalizing bowel movements and maintaining bowel health and integrity.  General guidlines for a healthy fiber intake for a woman is about 22 to 28 grams of fiber each day.  A man should consume between 28 and 34 grams of fiber each day.  These amounts should come from a wide variety of fiber sources.  The Fiber Foods List has information about many sources of fiber-rich foods, including how much fiber per serving you get as well as other health benefits that high fiber food might provide.

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Pecans

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Serving Size:  1 Ounce. Total Fiber Content:  2.7 Grams Pecans hold several benefits – both from the point of taste as well as about the nutritional value. A cup of chopped pecans weighing 110gms can hold around 750 calories, out of which 657 would be from the fat content. The carbohydrate content amounts to 25gms … Continue reading

Barley

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Serving Size: 1 cup cooked. Total Fiber Content: 6 Grams. Barley is a great high fiber food grain and provides 651 calories for a serving size of 184gms, of which 45% are from carbohydrates, and only 7% fat content. Barley has high calcium content – it is ideal meal supplement people suffering from osteoporosis and … Continue reading

Bananas

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Serving Size:  1 medium Total Fiber Content:  3.6 grams Bananas are not called the “fruit of the wise” in vain – these fruits are rich source of minerals like potassium, riboflavin, iron, phosphorus, calcium, manganese and many more. The calorie content is high – with 105 calories present in a medium sized banana (close to … Continue reading

Carrots

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Serving Size: 1 cup Total Fiber Per Serving: 4 grams A cup of chopped Carrots weighing 128gms has 52 calories, out of which only 3 calories are from the fat content. Carrots are low in fat, have zero cholesterol or trans fat or even sodium, and hence is a common inclusion into diet. These have … Continue reading

Black Beans

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Serving Size: 1 cup Fiber Content: 15gms A cup or 172gms of cooked Black Beans provides 230 calories, out of which only 8 calories are from fat content, the rest from protein (15.2gm) and 14% from carbohydrates. Dietary fiber amounts to 60% of the total carbohydrate content or 15gms, which is why heart patients and … Continue reading

Avacados

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Serving Size:  1 Medium. Total Fiber Per Serving:  11.8 grams. Now one no longer needs to add in avocado to salads and sandwiches only on the account of its taste –there is nutritional goodness to consider as well. A cup of avocados weighing 150gms has 245 calories, 184 or 34% are from fat. The carbohydrate … Continue reading

Apples

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Serving Size:  1 Medium (with skin). Total Fiber Per Serving:  4.4 grams. The calorie content in apples amounts to 65 for 125gms of serving size. The saturated fat content is low, and cholesterol content is zero, and hence the adage about an apple a day keeping the doctor away is not at all credited. Apples … Continue reading

Almonds

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Serving Size:  1oz. Total Fiber Per Serving:  3.5 grams. A cup of ground almonds weighing 95gms can contain up to 550 calories, with total fat worth 393 calories or 72%, 21gms of carbohydrates or 7%. In spite of the high content of saturated fat, almonds are free from cholesterol and sodium, and are extremely rich … Continue reading

Artichokes

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Serving Size:  1 cup (cooked). Fiber Per Serving:  10.3 grams. Artichokes are another great source of dietary fiber.  Artichokes are rich in chromium and magnesium, and provide good amounts of many vitamins and minerals including manganese, boitin, folic acid, Vitamin C, potassium, Vitamin A, niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin.  The chemical compounds cynarin and luteolinis found … Continue reading

Green Split Peas

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Serving Size: 1 cup (cooked). Fiber Per Serving:  16.3 grams. Split Peas are absolutely packed with fiber and protein like most legumes are.  One serving of split peas provides almost a whole day’s requirement for the amino acids lysine, threonine, and leucine.  Fiber rich split peas are also rich in iron, folate, thiamin, and pantothenic … Continue reading