High Fiber Recipes

Getting your daily fiber can be delicious

There are many reasons why a high-fiber diet is a healthy one. Besides the benefits of a high-fiber diet for your digestive system, its filling bulk can keep you from feeling hungry when you’re watching your weight, and there is medical evidence that, as part of a healthy lifestyle, it can lower your risk of developing several major diseases.

Low-Calorie High-Fiber Recipes

Changing out the white rice, bread or pasta in your favorite classic dishes for a whole-wheat or other whole-grain version instantly creates easy high-fiber recipes – no new or additional steps needed. And because whole-grain products are more filling than their non-whole-grain counterparts, recipes that are high in fiber can be “lower calorie” because you will feel more satisfied, and will therefore likely eat less overall. However, if you only alter old favorites and don’t explore new recipes, you’ll miss out on a lot of great meal ideas!

Since many fruits and vegetables are high in fiber but low in calories, there are countless high-fiber recipes in cookbooks and online for you to try that will add bulk to your diet but not to your body. High-fiber meal recipes are great because they not only take the guesswork out of choosing high-fiber ingredients, but they can also make you aware of some foods that you didn’t even realize were a source of fiber – like avocado!

High-Fiber Baking

When it comes to baking, where the ingredients interact with each other in careful balance, adding fiber to a recipe is not always as simple as just swapping out all the white flour for a whole-grain flour. In some cases, substituting a refined ingredient for a high-fiber one, or adding a high-fiber ingredient that the recipe doesn’t call for, can leave you with baked goods that are too dense, too dry or not cooked through properly if you aren’t an experienced enough baker to know exactly how to adjust other ingredients.

That’s why having a high-fiber recipe to follow is a lifesaver! High-fiber bread recipes that use whole-grain flours, or high-fiber muffin recipes that give you the option to add bran or dried fruit, for example, have properly accounted for the use of these ingredients.