Adding fiber to your gluten-free diet

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Adding fiber to your gluten-free diet

Sufficient intake of fibre helps maintain regular bowel habits and promotes well-being. Therefore, it is important to find fibre-rich options to be included also in a gluten-free diet.

Pay attention to the intake of fibre

Regardless of the reason why you are following a gluten-free diet, the challenge of such a diet is to ensure the sufficient intake of fibre. Eliminating traditional grain products from your diet often means that the intake of good sources of fibre is reduced. Sufficient intake of fibre helps maintain regular bowel habits and promotes well-being. Therefore, it is important to find fibre-rich options to be included also in a gluten-free diet. The definition of a high-fibre product is a good selection criterion: a minimum of 6 grams of fibre in 100 grams of a product. It is advisable to include different forms of gluten-free grain products in almost every meal to reach the amount of fibre recommended for daily nutrition, 25–35 grams per day.

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A gluten-free daily dose of fibre can consist, for example, of the following:

  • One serving of Elovena Gluten Free oat porridge (4.4 g)
  • 4-5 slices high fibre gluten-free bread (8-10g)
  • One serving of cooked gluten-free pasta (2.1 g)
  • 2 tablespoons of nuts (1,8 g)
  • ½ kg of vegetables, berries and fruit (approx. 10 g)

In total 28,3 g