fiber in various foods

[dteresa]

https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/educ ... nutrition/

Scroll to the bottom for the fiber content of some foods.

I posted this because to me, some of those numbers were very surprising. I thought kidney beans and yams would have a lot more fiber and have more fiber than green beans and brussels sprouts. And the whole grains have a lot less than I would have thought.

didi

[baardmk]

I'm really surprised at these numbers too, so I checked brussel sprouts and brown rice. Brussel sprouts are actually a little higher and cooked brown rice much higher than the chart in the page you linked.

The chart is probably completely erroneous.

Cooked brown rice (111 kcal)
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/cer ... sta/5707/2

[dteresa]

baard, you are right. I just checked my brown rice, white kidney beans and trader Joe's pasta and they all have a whole lot more fiber than in the McDougall chart. I wonder why such a large discrepancy? The only thing I can think of is that plants have both soluble and insoluble fiber so perhaps the chart on this site is only one or the other. I am going to ask Jeff.

didi

[Jumpstart]

I noticed the chart indicates fiber per 100 calories and that can be deceptive. The volume needed to make 100 calories of Brussels sprouts would be considerable more than for beans.

[dteresa]

another good point. It is common when talking about this way of eating to calculate nutrition as a percent of calories. But if I am eating raw baby spinach leaves at one hundred calories per pound and about thirty eight per cent protein then I would have to eat the whole thing and would be getting about 9 gms protein. And I couldn't eat the whole thing. Frozen then cooked spinach takes me much less time to finish off. I could easily get 9 gms of protein from 1 ounce of boneless skinless chicken breast. If I ate chicken. It is a whole lot less filling that a pound of baby spinach.

I put this on Jeff's board and he answered and added a couple of links.

didi
PS, dr Donald Miller (I think he is a cardiologist) gave a talk on how great coconut oil and a low carb high fat diet is. Someone in the audience asked him where you get fiber on the diet he described. He hesitated a bit and then said---from meat.