Adequate intake of dietary fiber is associated with digestive health and reduced risk for heart disease, stroke, hypertension, certain gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and certain cancers. According to consumer research, the ...
Restaurants like to serve vegetables because they are cheap, easy to prepare (mostly), fast to cook, and filling. Far more profitable to sell than a steak. That those same vegetables are high in fiber, is an accident to them.
As a person who needs to take supplemental iron pills every day, constipation is an old friend and I’m always eating as much fibre as possible to combat it.
Frozen or canned vegetables are cheap and readily available. Cheap beans, either canned or dried. All common items in any restaurants. And in 40 minutes I can have a loaf of oatmeal bread to go with it all. And that includes making the oat flour from scratch with cardboard box of oat meal breakfast cereal.
You want more fiber than that, I will need to fall a dead maple tree I didn’t get dropped this past summer.
In Taiwan, almost all restaurants will be veggie heavy. At home, it’s always 1 veggie dish and 1 meat dish.
Every time I go back to visit the US, I’m constantly constipated.
Restaurants like to serve vegetables because they are cheap, easy to prepare (mostly), fast to cook, and filling. Far more profitable to sell than a steak. That those same vegetables are high in fiber, is an accident to them.
As a person who needs to take supplemental iron pills every day, constipation is an old friend and I’m always eating as much fibre as possible to combat it.
Peasant dishes make the best cuisine.
Shouldn’t the same things be the case for people at home then?
Frozen or canned vegetables are cheap and readily available. Cheap beans, either canned or dried. All common items in any restaurants. And in 40 minutes I can have a loaf of oatmeal bread to go with it all. And that includes making the oat flour from scratch with cardboard box of oat meal breakfast cereal.
You want more fiber than that, I will need to fall a dead maple tree I didn’t get dropped this past summer.
They’re a bit more work to prepare