Why is fiber important?

Fiber helps you poop by adding bulk to your stools and regulating the gut transit time (aka how long it takes for food to pass) and consistency. If you don’t eat enough fiber, then waste just sits in the gut. When it’s finally ready to budge, bowel movements can become difficult and uncomfortable.

Fiber is also a prebiotic (food) that feeds the friendly bacteria living in the gut.

95% of adults in the U.S. don’t get the recommended daily amount of fiber (considered to be between 21-39 grams daily).

Here are a few examples of foods high in fiber to help meet your daily requirements:

• Carbonaut Gluten Free Bread: 28 grams in 2 slices

• Catalina Crunch Cereal: 18 grams in 1 cup

• Steel-cut oats: 12 grams of fiber in ⅔ cup

• Flax seeds: 11.5 grams of fiber in ¼ cup

• Chia seeds: 9.8 grams of fiber in 2 tablespoons

• Lentils: 7.8 grams of fiber in ½ cup

• Blackberries: 7.5 grams in 1 cup

• Raspberries: 8 grams in 1 cup

• Black beans: 6.7 grams of fiber in ⅔ cup

• Psyllium husk powder: 5 grams in 1 tablespoon

• Broccoli: 5 grams in 1 cup cooked

• Avocado: 4.6 grams of fiber for half an avocado

• Sweet potato: 4.5 grams of fiber in ⅔ cup

• Almond butter: 3.3 grams of fiber in 2 tablespoons

• Sourdough bread: 3 grams of fiber per slice