Foods High in Fibers

Are you looking for foods high in fiber? There are foods that are naturally high fiber content but there are also foods that are low in dietary fibers. Fatty foods have very little fiber, whereas high fiber foods are mostly low in fat.

Given below is a list of foods with their fiber content.
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For the list of soluble fibers in foods, see Soluble Fiber Foods.

The following table gives the amount of dietary fibers in foods. You can select high fiber foods to make a high fiber diet.

List of High Fiber Foods

The above list is very handy in selecting high fiber foods to increase fibers in diet.. From the above table, we give below a list of high fiber foods:

1. Legumes & Lentils: Dried beans, peas and other legumes including baked beans, kidney beans, split peas, dried limas, garbanzos, lentils, pinto beans and black beans. Green beans, snap beans, pole beans, lima beans and broad beans

2. Dried fruit such as figs, apricots and dates
3. Fruits like raspberries, blackberries and strawberries, cherries, plums, pears, apples, kiwi fruit, guava, banana. Pears contain more fiber than prunes.
4. Vegetables like Fresh or frozen green peas, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Sweet corn, beet root, baked potato with the skin, carrot
5. Greens vegetables including spinach, beet greens, kale, collards, Swiss chard and turnip greens.
6. Nuts such as almonds, Brazil nuts, peanuts, pistachios, and walnuts (Nuts are also high in fat content, read calories in nuts.). But pistachios are the lowest in calories and fat of all nuts, and a one-ounce serving has three grams of fiber.
7. Whole wheat and barley products
8. Rye, oats, buckwheat and cornmeal
9. Coconut (this is also high in saturated fat).

The fibers should be very important inclusion in your diet for controlling your cholesterol and preventing cancer. See warning signs of cancer.