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adjl posted...

Uhh, 3 cups at 14g per half cup would be 84g total. You mean 1.5 cups.

Yep, typed to fast and mathed wrong.
adjl posted...

Instead of thinking of it in terms of how you'd get all your fibre needs out of the way in one go, consider how to distribute that among your meals. 1/2 cup of cereal (14), half a cup of mixed berries (~3), a sandwich with two slices of whole wheat bread (4), half a tomato (0.5), half a cup of lettuce (0.5), and a cup of baked beans (14) will bring you to 36. Toss in a banana or half an apple as a snack, and you break 38.

The thing is, you'd NEED to do cereal and this amount of beans every single day. Even doing cereal one day but not the beans means one wouldn't come anywhere close, since the other food groups are poor sources of fiber. Also of note that very few eat beans that way, and it'd have to be a full cup of baked beans. Baked beans in a can don't come anywhere near close to the same values.

It's unrealistic for the sheer monotony of it all. People tend not to like to eat the same things every day. But for a very specific amount of cereal and beans, from a specific type/prepared a certain way, every day? No one is doing that. Hence my question of how they came up with this amount. It's not useful to say this is what people *should* at when it's crazy unrealistic.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And there are definitely sources of fiber in other things (the link you posted even points it out). Certain green vegetables. Nuts. Whole wheat breads and pasta. The whole idea is that you're supposed to be getting a little bit from a lot of different sources, not all of your fiber from a single source.

Right, but as mentioned, all the other sources only add up to miniscule quantities of fiber. Eating beans/cereal would be a requirement to hit the number.