High Fiber Foods.
Posted on January 13, 2010 by admin
1. Legumes & Lentils: Dried beans, peas and other legumes including baked beans, kidney beans, split peas, dried limas, garbanzos, lentils, pinto beans and black beans. Green beans, snap beans, pole beans, lima beans and broad beans
2. Dried fruit such as figs, apricots and dates
3. Fruits like raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, cherries, plums, pears, apples, kiwi fruit, guava, banana. Pears contain more fiber than prunes.
4. Vegetables like Fresh or frozen green peas, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Sweet corn, beet root, baked potato with the skin, carrot
5. Greens vegetables including spinach, beet greens, kale, collards, Swiss chard and turnip greens.
6. Nuts such as almonds, Brazil nuts, peanuts, pistachios, and walnuts (Nuts are also high in fat content.). But pistachios are the lowest in calories and fat of all nuts, and a one-ounce serving has three grams of fiber.
7. Whole wheat and barley products
8. Rye, oats, buckwheat and cornmeal
9. Coconut (this is also high in saturated fat).
I was searching for foods high in fiber and I came across the list above from fatfreekitchen.com. We indeed get a lot of benefits from including fiber in our diet, like lowering cholesterol, weight loss management and it can even be a cure for hemorrhoids. So better include fiber in our daily diet and let’s start eating healthy.
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