Fiber - Explain it to me

Coolhandkid

I've accepted and become an advocate of CICO but there seems to be some weird gray area with fiber. My understanding is that a lot of fiber is not digested and therefore, the calories wouldn't impact your intake. I know Quest Bars and many other health food products don't include the full 4kC/g carbs of their fiber.

I have actually started using IMO (the high fiber sweetener in Quest Bars, etc) fairly liberally in my diet. Eating a high fiber low carb diet has helped my stomach but it doesn't seem like some of the calorie counts in these are registering with me the way non fiber carbs would.

joejccva71

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/fiber-its-natures-broom.html/

Coolhandkid

So should we calibrate calories to reflect 1.5-2 kC/g Fiber? Because it is recognized differently in every product. I'm getting ~50-75g fiber a day. Thats 100-150 calories a day difference.

girlviernes

My understanding is that the (lack of) calories are already accounted for, so you don't need to worry about it.

arditarose

This was giving me a brain fart last night too actually. I think I understand now...or at least I stopped freaking out.

joejccva71

Yea you don't need to worry about the calories in fiber carbs. 99.9% of the nutritional labels that are approved by the FDA already have this pre-calculated. And green leafy vegetables you shouldn't be stressing too much over in counting them anyway.

If you were to eat a head of broccoli it would be like 30 calories....maybe.

arditarose

joejccva71 wrote: »

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/nutrition/fiber-its-natures-broom.html/

Thanks

bluworld

It's the carbs from fiber you don't count. So, if an item has 43g of carbs, and 6g of fiber, then you'd only account for 36g of carbs. Not important, unless you need to count carbs. Then, those fiber reductions can equal a lot more food.

cotewalter

Eat more light popcorn! Good fiber and helps with the salty snack cravings! At age 55 I need lotsa fiber!