Bran Cereal for Fiber

Nutrition Q&A [Moderated]
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In the Fiber Podcast, you made a distinction between fiber from foods and fiber from supplements, such as psyllium husk. Which category would you put bran cereal in?

Say I get 18g of fiber from one daily serving of bran cereal each morning and get the rest of my fiber from other foods, up to the 25g-35g recommended amount. Would this count as following your fiber recommendation or is it cheating?

Thanks,

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I’d put it in the whole grain food category. Yes, it would count.

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Thanks for the reply. I wanted to check because it seemed too good to be true that I could get more than half my daily fiber from less than 1 cup of cereal. Wasn’t sure if there were any shenanigans going on(even though the ingredients on the box just say “wheat bran”).