Dietary fiber is not just for, ahem, regularity anymore. It can also help with improving cholesterol and with weight loss.
Here are a few new ways to get extra fiber into your diet:
Progresso High Fiber Soup: Hey, it's not as freaky as you .jpg)
might think. MyBlogSpark sent me a can of the Chicken Tuscany to sample and it was quite good. You'd never know there was 7 grams of fiber per serving (14 grams for the entire can). The fiber comes from the beans and veggies in the soup and from modified food starch. My only beef, as is with pretty much every canned soup on the market, is that the sodium is too high if the can of soup is going to serve as your entire meal. Half a can of the Chicken Tuscany has 690 milligrams of sodium; double that for the whole can. Besides the Chicken Tuscany, it also comes in Creamy Tomato Basil, Hearty Vegetable & Noodle and Homestyle Minestrone.
Salba: This tiny seed is positioning itself to be the new flaxseed. 
Salba is the richest whole food source of omega-3 fatty acids and fiber found in nature. Salba is clinically proven to help reduce cholesterol, blood sugar and blood pressure. One tablespoon has 65 calories, 4 grams of fiber and 2,740 milligrams of omega-3 fatty acids. And unlike flax, Salba doesn't really have any discernable flavor so it's easy to add whole or ground Salba into any recipe or atop salads or oatmeal. Here's a fun fact: Salba is a special strain of the chia seed (yes, that Scooby-Doo head chia).
VivAgave inulin: This new product blends three hot trends -- organics, .jpg)
agave and inulin. Agave Inulin has a minimal impact on blood sugar and is a low glycemic food. Inulin also increases calcium and magnesium absorption. And unlike other fiber supplements, inulin is a fine powder that will magically disappear into hot and cold beverages and in foods. A tablespoon of VivAgave has 40 calories but a whopping 10 grams of dietary fiber. You can get VivAgave in either plain or vanilla flavor, which would be a good addition to oatmeal, coffee or baked goods.
Comments