# Getting the daily recommended fiber a day is freaking hard! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919 "2020-09-30T21:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/21 "2020-10-02T15:18:35Z")
The quickest route to colon motility is to eat a big bowl of bran buds (or flakes if you must) each day. The amount of fibre for a small serving size is impressive. Most people who eat cereal, like anything else, eat more than one “serving”. Add fruit or whatever you need to make it palatable, but I personally don’t mind bran cereals. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/22 "2020-10-02T15:25:26Z")
I’m an enormous fan of the black bean, probably eat them as a main meal 3-4 days a week. A cup of black beans has 15 grams of fiber, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/23 "2020-10-02T17:24:34Z")
The better you feel, So eat beans for every meal. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/24 "2020-10-02T18:19:37Z")
A lot of foods touted as being low carb are high fiber. Ole xtream wellness tortillas have 11 grams in one tortilla. I take a wrap to work or make a breakfast wrap. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2020, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/25 "2020-10-02T21:27:26Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Steel-cut oats take a LONG time to cook, relatively speaking, on the stovetop, but they’re great when done overnight in a Crock Pot. You do need to make sure to use plenty of butter or oil on the liner or you will have a very goopy mess. I’m a fan of the Bob’s Quick cooking steel cut oats: > **[Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats](https://www.bobsredmill.com/quick-cooking-steel-cut-oats.html)** > > Our Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats come from some of the highest quality farm-fresh oats in the world. They’re milled from whole grain oats and cut into neat little pieces on a specialized rotary granulator mill. Ready in 7 minutes, our Quick Cooking... Still take around 7-8 minutes, but that gives me time to make coffee. We eat them nearly every day (weekends we make special breakfasts) so we buy them at Costco. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/26 "2020-10-04T14:51:20Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I’m a fan of the Bob’s Quick cooking steel cut oats: > > [Quick Cooking Steel Cut Oats | Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods](https://www.bobsredmill.com/quick-cooking-steel-cut-oats.html) > > Still take around 7-8 minutes, but that gives me time to make coffee. We eat them nearly every day (weekends we make special breakfasts) so we buy them at Costco. Thanks all for this thread and the good info in it. I too struggle to get my RDA of fiber. My wife and I first met Bob and his Red Mill on our honeymoon, a road trip along the Pacific coast north from San Francisco to Whistler, British Columbia. We hadn’t seen his products before, and our Whistler hotel had Bob’s Old Country Style Muesli breakfast cereal. We loved Bob then, and now, still 18 years later we still love Bob. He’s played a key role in our happy marriage, … especially his Muesli: [Old Country Style Muesli Cereal | Bob's Red Mill](https://www.bobsredmill.com/shop/cereals/old-country-style-muesli.html). Eaten cold with milk, it is quick and easy, much less than 7-8 minutes, (hey, we like Bob in a quickie 😊), and it has 4g of fiber per serving. Bob’s site has a filter for High Fiber. When checked there are a lot of options including the steel cut oats mentioned by @wguy123: [https://www.bobsredmill.com/shop/cereals.html?high\_fiber=1](https://www.bobsredmill.com/shop/cereals.html?high_fiber=1). In the last 1-2 years as I season and get better with age (like fine wines do), I find that the mid- to late-50s has brought changes in my daily, uhh, ‘dumping routine’. Whereas I used to be very regular, every morning like clockwork most of my life, the last year or two have brought changes and I’ve become highly irregular, to sometimes 2, 3, or 4 days between my dump sessions. That can’t be good, can it? I think not. I just turned 59 and plan to be with you kind folks for another 20 or 30 years, God willing. During that time I want to keep things, uhh, moving regularly. In my chase for fiber these last couple of years I’ve tried Metamucil powder (and the generic stuff), gummy fiber supplements, drinking prune juice, eating more fruits and veggies, and I’ve even resorted to taking laxative meds when I close in on 4 days since my last, uhh, well you know. I don’t recommend the laxative meds, BTW, because things can get a little, uhh, explosive — with apologies to Helen Reddy, and may she rest in peace, it reminds me of her song lyrics, _“I am woman, hear me roar…”_ Please excuse a man borrowing from that song in this manner. So I’m with you as we try all to figure out how to get our RDA of fiber. Oh and BTW, if you want a nice and inexpensive vacation destination, Whistler Village during the offseason of late June and July is highly recommended by us! We had a great honeymoon there. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/27 "2020-10-04T18:53:59Z")
I have a friend who worked as a receptionist at a clinic. She said the staff gastroenterologist was always walking around with his hand in a box of Cracklin’ Oat Bran. He snacked on it all day long. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/28 "2020-10-04T20:47:24Z")
That cereal is like candy. I’ve thought about bringing some of that cereal to the movies to munch on. Never have, though. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/29 "2020-10-04T22:35:40Z")
I mix two tablespoons of metamucil in with orange juice and drink that. Also bean burritos at taco bell have11 grams each. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/30 "2020-10-04T23:51:03Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > She said the staff gastroenterologist was always walking around with his hand in a box of Cracklin’ Oat Bran. He snacked on it all day long. Cringe. The image this created in my brain. Eewww. Do you know where those hands had been? ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/31 "2020-10-05T00:01:31Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I mix two tablespoons of metamucil in with orange juice and drink that. > > Also bean burritos at taco bell have11 grams each. Two bean burritos would almost get me to my RDA? I might have to check that out! ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/32 "2020-10-05T00:05:47Z")
They should not exist. But fiber gummies have 5g of dietary fiber if you need that little extra to get to your RDA. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/33 "2020-10-05T00:25:59Z")
I thought Bran Buds would be great as a morning staple until I read the label. The second ingredient in them is sugar. That’s the problem I have with pretty much all commercially prepared stuff. I find this frustrating because pretty much no one in this country needs more of that, but we could all use more fiber. Trying to get it in a convenient package without unwanted additives is really hard. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/34 "2020-10-05T00:40:43Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I thought Bran Buds would be great as a morning staple until I read the label. The second ingredient in them is sugar. Sugar is the 2nd ingredient in Bran Buds, but that’s because there’s very little in them _but_ bran fiber - nearly any amount of sugar would make it to the 2nd place position. Of the 80 calories per serving, 40 cals are from sugar. For 46% of your daily recommended fiber, you’d be getting a lot more than 40 calories of sugar if you tried to supply the fiber with fruit. It’d be nice if there was no sugar at all, but I suspect you’d have to add something to make it palatable. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/35 "2020-10-05T00:43:18Z")
Welp, I manage to make a lot of things I like using beans and no added sugar, so I’m good. But for people who want something easy put together or eat on the go, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/36 "2020-10-05T01:14:01Z")
Try some Kashi shredded wheat cereal-7gms fiber per serving (and we all usually eat a serving and a half of cereal realistically, so really 10 or 11gm, 34%). Very tasty, comes in 3 flavors. Cinnamon, Island Vanilla or Berry Fruitful. I get mine from WalMart but is organic so findable in other mainstream stores too. > **[Kashi® Whole Wheat Biscuits, Cinnamon Harvest](https://www.kashi.com/en_US/our-foods/cereals/kashi-cinnamon-harvest-whole-wheat-biscuits-product.html)** > > Thrill your tastebuds with sweet, warm, cinnamon flavor weaved into every crisp whole grain biscuit. Crafted from just four ingredients, every tempting bowl is packed with fiber and has 100% of the recommended daily amount of whole grains. Give your... ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/37 "2020-10-05T01:52:33Z")
How do you feel about squash? According to the healthline website, 205 grams of cooked acorn squash contains 9 grams of fiber. I sometimes cut a squash into cubes and cook it and take it with as a lunch or for snacking through out the day ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/38 "2020-10-05T02:30:56Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > I thought Bran Buds would be great as a morning staple until I read the label. The second ingredient in them is sugar. That’s pretty trivial compared to most fiber rich products. Remember, sugar and non-fiber carbs are equivalent nutritionally (since all sugars ARE non-fiber carbs). Let’s compare 100 g beans to 100 g bran buds: Beans Total Carbohydrate 63 g Dietary fiber 16 g (64% of RDA) Sugar 2.1 g Calories 347 Buds Total Carbohydrate 80 g Dietary fiber 43 g (172% of RDA) Sugar 27 g Calories 250 Beans are low in sugar, but not so low in other carbs, being just about 20% lower than buds. But buds pack over 2.6 x the fiber, with fewer calories per serving too. Beans are a good choice nutritionally, but so are bran buds as fiber supplements. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/39 "2020-10-05T11:27:44Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > The second ingredient in them is sugar. Holy 80s health tips! Maybe they don’t have nutrition labels in Rome. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919/40 "2020-10-05T18:48:28Z")
Those fiber supplement capsules are pathetic — only 0.5g of fiber per capsule. At 11g of fiber per, Taco Bell’s bean burritos are starting to look pretty good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/getting-the-daily-recommended-fiber-a-day-is-freaking-hard/921919.md?page=3)