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Fiber
Fiber recommended daily intake (RDI) is at least 14g/1000 calories
for everyone over 2 years of age (US Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020–2025). Research suggests that
higher intake (over 30g/day) might confer even greater health benefits
Fiber contributes to:
Use FLMC's Fiber Counter & Tracker to ensure a high and diverse intake for a healthy gut microbiome to protect from many diseases
- A high-fiber diet protects from many diseases such as type 2 diabetes, high LDL "bad" cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, inflammatory diseases, many types of cancer, depression, and neurodegenerative diseases eg Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease. Fiber also improves gut function, lowering the risk of constipation, diverticular disease, and haemorrhoids.
- Set your daily fiber intake based on guidance provided in the app and your preferences for weights of food (g or oz) and display of fiber content in foods and beverages (ie, %target/serving, g/100g or g/1oz, or %target/100g or %target/1oz).
- Record food and beverage consumption using the barcode scanner, dictation, search or by favoriting foods and using the serving sizes provided (which can be changed at any time). Tap the notepad to add notes.
- Monitor daily and long-term progress, export data to share with healthcare providers, synchronise data with other First Line Medical Communications Ltd nutrient counter apps, and share data with Apple's HealthKit.
- Add your own foods and recipes and change serving sizes to personalize the 400-item database for you.
- The app also provides nutritional information for many healthy foods and supports a healthy gut microbiome diet using color-coded type and icons as follows:
- Plants that can be included as one of the 30 different types of plants per week recommended by experts for a healthy gut microbiome are in green type with a green leaf icon in the food popups. The most prebiotic plants (ie, those that are particularly beneficial for the gut microbiome) are in a darker green type.
- Fermented foods that contain beneficial live microbes to become part of the gut microbiome (probiotics) are in gold type with a gold microbe icon in the food popups.
- Foods that are likely to be ultra-processed (UPFs) — ie, contain ingredients not found in a home kitchen (eg, preservatives, flavorings, and emulsifiers) likely to harm the gut microbiome are in red type with a red warning triangle in the food popups. UPFs cause obesity for a variety of reasons and damage the gut microbiome.