Fibre (food)

What is fibre? Fibre is a stringy part of food that is not broken down by the body when we eat it. Also known as roughage.

Many kinds of food contain fibre.

Fibre is found in plants. While all plants contain some fibre, plants with high amounts of fibre do you the most good. This is a list of some of them:
peas, soybeans, lupins and other beans
oats, rye, wheat, maize (corn), and barley
some fruits (including prunes, plums, avocados, berries, ripe bananas, and the skin of apples, quinces, grapes, tomatoes and pears)
vegetables such as broccoli and carrots, green beans, cauliflower, courgette and celery
root tubers and root vegetables such as potatoes and onions.

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