To think it’s really difficult to eat 30g of fibre

@Allthefruit Protein powder I'm convinced is going to be the next scandal - there are no controls over what is in it. No one needs that much protein unless they are ill or seriously weight training.

I actually think it's quite difficult to reach the recommended amounts of all of the different macros. I am losing weight and stick to an intermittent fasting diet.... so two meals a day and no snacks the majority of the time. Getting all of my fibre and protein is nearly impossible if I don't want to become obsessed and/or bored to tears with the repetition. I don't want to track everything I eat, I couldn't imagine anything more dull and restrictive.

I basically make sure I eat things like avocado on toast and lentils, beans etc regularly. I take a psyllium husk supplement and sprinkle seeds/nuts on any meals where they make sense. I eat brown rice, bread and pasta. Other than that I just get on with my life and hope for the best!

If you eat animal products then stop and replace them with plants. It's incredibly difficult for the average woman to eat sufficient fibre and stay within her calorie/saiety requirements when meat and dairy are clogging up so much of her diet.

Same. I am fed up of recipes that purport to be healthy but are just huge scoops of protein powder.

I'm imagining just all bran squished into a ring shape

That bagel is basically a blend of fibre extracts (bran, psyllium etc) glued together with water. I have done my share of baking things with chickpeas and psyllium and trying to convince myself they are edible, let alone delicious. Life is too damn short.

Also, the US label fibre differently to the UK/EU, they subtract fibre from carbs to show "net carbs" whilst we include fibre in the total and also show it separately.

I'm not convinced that eating a facsimile of bagel made from a huge lump of ultraprocessed fibre extracts to reach specific number is actually what your body needs, rather than getting the different types of soluble and insoluble fibres from a range of real foods. Like I don't believe necking an artifically sweetened protein shake is truly equivalent to real food. But that does mean eating more beans, vegetables and low-fat dairy fish and meat a lot more than most people want to.

Just reading this thread is setting off my IBS 😭 oh to be able to eat normally...

AllBran has changed its recipe. It now looks weird and tastes vile.

Yes I wonder if nutrition info is as rigorous in the US as it is here, not sure I believe their claim at all and not just the fibre content. If it were true this bagel would solve the world’s lack of fibre content in one fell swoop, the NHS could prescribe it! 😂

I’m fascinated by the bagel, and I’ve recklessly never tracked my fibre intake
really want to try and recreate it at home and then become fibre bagel TikTok sensation 😂

I definitely eat enough fibre but I'm morbidly obese so that is because I eat a lot of calories and despite the stereotype I overeat on healthy food. I often eat 300g plus of almonds as a snack and eat very large portions of porridge plus usually at least 4-6 slices of dense wholemeal bread most days

We eat a lot of oven baked vegetarian dishes so I eat lots of veg in the evening but usually enough for 2-3 people ( going on what most people on here say a portion is plus my dim memories of what a reasonable portion is from my days on different weight loss diets in my youth)

I agree it is hard to do with normal portion sizes though and don't recommend my method of course 😂

I meant fibre obviously

great business opportunity for someone to create similar, I can only assume they don’t comply to uk standards?
or is it a different fibre measurement

@steff13

TELL US ABOUT THE BAGEL

What bagel had that much fibre? Was it wholemeal?

@Bambamhoohooi guess it’s because fibre grams are deducted from total carb grams as they are indigestible carbs. Making the overall net carbs totals very low?

I’ll be honest it hadn’t occurred to me it was that wrong (I thought maybe 10g out) I use it to track caloriesand macros and thought it looked reasonable?!! I’ll have a look through the items

A bowl of Bran flakes.

The big culprit I think is the low carb movement. If you eat jacket potatoes, rice, wholewheat pasta etc as a base for your meals, you're eating more fibre naturally rather than adding odd supplements like chia seeds.

30g is still very hard to reach.

I worked it out one day, putting in my average daily meals and I worked out I average about 25g a day (and I always have veg and salad with my meals) and dh gets way less.

A pp did share something useful above though, that the goal is 14g of fibre per 1000cal. So if you eat under 2000cal a day you don't need 30g of fibre.

My dh definitely needs to eat more though. His standard workday lunch is scrambled eggs on white toast, which probably gives him about 1g of fibre!

There is something very suspicious about those bagels. Not least, how they can be keto 😂

Are you not 😱 at how wildly inaccurate it is? It more than doubled the fibre?! The calories and everything else would be equally wrong surely?!

I agree in many ways but totally disagree with fibre because you can see from this thread the majority of people don’t have a hope of coming near the fibre they need. And it’s important.

the massive increases in bowel cancer young in our generation are thought to be attributable to this (and being pushed out by the protein obsession of the last 30 years)

We all need those magic Bagels, then we could stop shoveling down mountains of chia seeds Lentils and bloody raspberries.

There are meal plans online from the British Nutrition Foundation that you might find helpful.

One example day is: muesli with tinned peaches for breakfast and a glass of orange juice, chicken and wholewheat pasta salad for lunch with dried apricots, salmon and new potatoes with broccoli and kale for dinner, with a smoothie and two digestives as a snack.

My best tip for fibre is All Bran cereal…11g in 1 portion which sets you up nicely for the day.

I think it was 266g aubergine and 289g cauliflower and just roasted them in the oven with a bit of cheese on top - was delicious.

The aldi protein thins say on the pack, 8.9g in 2 bagels.

I was raised on wholegrain Scandinavian bread for lunch. It has a lot of fiber. We bake every week.
We reach 30 gr a day.