Fibre Supplements?

Ive been reading a lot of posts where people mention adding fibre supplements/powders to their breakfasts etc and was wondering if anyone could recommend one?

Im a student at the moment, so sometimes struggle to afford regular fresh fruit/veg and consequently reach my daily fibre intake needs!

Thanks!

I tried to find a supplement that I like and wanted to try but coudln't find one within budget and that sort of thing. So, I changed my morning breakfast and my first snack of the day to fiber one (they have a lot of good kinds and lots of fiber) and my first snack is always a fiber bar. The fiber bars are so good I could eat them all day long and a lot of the time I put PB on it for the protein and a little added calories. So, with those two changes and then maybe an apple sometime during the day I usually get my fiber goal. Good luck!

I personally have not had much luck with fiber supplements. The best way and the tastiest way is to get it through the foods that you eat. Fiber bars are good. The supplements that you add into your food are yucky and i'll pretty much eat everything.

Try eating oatmeal in the morning. Quaker has fiber enriched oatmeal.

My perfect use of fibre supplement is to add it into oatmeal. I can't stand taking it with a glass of water. I have to add more water and this also makes it seem like I'm eating more/more filling. I did a detox by Clease Smart and it has a fiber sup. called Fiber Smart by Renew Life. $26 canadian for 2 month supply.

2 servings of plain oatmeal 6g fibre

1 scoop of Fiber Smart 3.5g fibre

1 apple 4g fibre

13.5g fibre just for breakfast. There's like 1g fibre in almond milk per cup and I add in cinnamon so it's probably 14-15g and only 385cals.

There are more effective dietary sources of fibre than supplements. For a start, tinned vegetables do not contain any less fibre than their fresh counterparts. Same with fruit. Just look for water stored vegetables - no added salt or sugar - and fruit in juice, not syrup, when tinned items. Second, look beyond your fruit and veggies. Wholegrains and most complex carbohydrates are brilliant sources of fibre. Cheap sources of fibre are oats, brown rice, bran, beans and legumes... it goes on, really.

You also need to consider the types of fibre you are taking in. Both soluble and insoluble fibre - insoluble (the fibre that forms bulk and regulates acidity and PH in the gut) and soluble (the fibre that helps regulate blood sugar and cholesterol).

Insoluble fibre examples:
 -- Whole-wheat pastas, breads, etc
 -- Quinoa
 -- Brown rice
 -- Bran products
 -- Fruit and vegetable skins, such as potato skins, tomato skins, plum/prune skins, apple skins, pear skins
 -- Nuts and seeds, particularly flax, almonds, brazil nuts and walnuts

Soluble fibre examples:
 -- Oats
 -- Rye
 -- Barley
 -- Potatoes of all varieties
 -- Psyillium husks, which would work if anything else as a good "supplement".
 -- Legumes and pulses, especially lentils, garbanzo beans (chickpeas), kidney beans, pinto beans and soybeans

And pretty much all fruits and vegetables. Particularly raspberries, plums, bananas, sweetcorn, prunes, apples, pears, blackberries, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels, asparagus, artichokes and dried fruit. 

Never introduce lots more fibre without drinking enough water to compensate. There is a more detailed list of fibre sources here for future reference.

try this!!

adding wheat bran to everything! one bag is only 75p but has 45 grams of fibre per 100 grams!!

thanks for all the suggestions; i think the general consensus is fibre supplements as a last resort, so i think ill try all the other ideas first!

thankyou for the help!

Good for you Cassie on asking for and actually listening to constructive advice.  If it was this easy with everyone, we wouldn't need this CC site to begin with...lol.

I hate to break it to you Carlyn but you probably like those fibre bars so much because they have so much sugar in them.  And adding PB for protein and "little added calories", well I'm not sure that's possible unless you scrape it on so thin you can't see it.  Last time I checked, PB had just about 100 calories per TBSP, most of it from fats, and only 10-15% of it from protein (3-4 grams), depending on which brand you buy.   That's a lot of calories for so little protein...