I am super confused by this. I recently bought some oat bran tablets and they turn out to have very little dietary fiber in them.
The tablets are 850 mg each, and they are definitely mostly bran (not just compressed oatmeal). I’d have thought I was taking at least .7 grams of fiber per pill but the label says the dietary fiber is <1 gram for three tablets. So that’s less than .3 grams per .85 gram tablet.
I just find this soooo surprising. I always thought of bran as being 95% fiber!
Were my expectations off, or is something else going on here? What exactly is bran made of?!?
Being tablets instead of capsules, they’ve got other binders and fillers in them that brings down the fiber content. That 850mg weight must be the weight of the tablet, not the oat bran in the tablet. That’s a horribly shady way to label your product, and frankly I’m shocked to see it in a Puritan’s Pride product.
100 grams of raw oat bran contains 15 grams of fiber (15% by weight). It also contains other carbs (51% by weight), protein (15% by weight), and fat (7%). On a percent weight basis those caps are actually doing well. Still not much fiber in a few caps.
What’s wrong with a cup of cooked oat bran? Or adding some chia seeds to some other food, like a yogurt? (3 Tbs have 12 grams of fiber, mostly soluble since that seems to be what you are aiming for, in 160 calories, along with other good stuff, good fats, complete protein …)
Seriously. Real foods will give you much more fiber than a few tablets will.
Try some porrage oats. Not the instant mush, but the almost instant real stuff like Scott’s Porage Oats. Just add milk (or milk and water) and cook in a bowl in the microwave. Hot, nourishing and full of fibre.
We buy oat bran for muffins, etc. a tablespoon mixed into a small Greek yogurt is great. Oat bran pancakes are fantastic. 3 Tb oat bran, 1 beaten egg, 2 Tb nofat plain Greek yogurt. Stir together, makes one large pancake. Can add sweet or savory additions.
Nope. The brans swells a bit as it cooks. It fills a small omelet pan nicely. I found the recipe as part of the Dukan Diet, a protein sparing fast. The bran is used as a fiber source. They are worth trying!