Secret Diet Food? Believe it or not... it's only 100 calories and high in fiber and... It's Pears!
Eating just one juicy fresh pear with the skin on will put you well on your way to meeting your fiber needs each day, according to the newly-released Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At about the size of a tennis ball, one medium-sized pear, (at just 100 calories!) has nearly 5 grams of fiber or about 17 percent of the recommended daily intake for most adults.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Eating just one juicy fresh pear with the skin on will put you well on your way to meeting your fiber needs each day, according to the newly-released Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At about the size of a tennis ball, one medium-sized pear, (at just 100 calories!) has nearly 5 grams of fiber or about 17 percent of the recommended daily intake for most adults.
Released in January, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans make it clear: we need to make wiser food choices for weight control and better health. Specifically singling out fiber as lacking in the average American diet, the guidelines recommend significantly increasing fiber consumption, and eating more fiber-rich fruits and vegetables.
In fact, the new guidelines recommend eating more fruits and vegetables than any other food group -- five cups, about 10 servings per day for starters, or about half our plate. Although grains are often touted for their fiber, pears actually provide more fiber per serving than most whole-grain foods and many fruits. Providing nearly 17 percent of the new guidelines’ daily fiber recommendation of 28 grams per 2,000-calorie intake), pears are the first fruit listed in the guideline’s appendix of top fiber sources.
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PORTLAND, Ore., March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Eating just one juicy fresh pear with the skin on will put you well on your way to meeting your fiber needs each day, according to the newly-released Dietary Guidelines for Americans. At about the size of a tennis ball, one medium-sized pear, (at just 100 calories!) has nearly 5 grams of fiber or about 17 percent of the recommended daily intake for most adults.
Released in January, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans make it clear: we need to make wiser food choices for weight control and better health. Specifically singling out fiber as lacking in the average American diet, the guidelines recommend significantly increasing fiber consumption, and eating more fiber-rich fruits and vegetables.
In fact, the new guidelines recommend eating more fruits and vegetables than any other food group -- five cups, about 10 servings per day for starters, or about half our plate. Although grains are often touted for their fiber, pears actually provide more fiber per serving than most whole-grain foods and many fruits. Providing nearly 17 percent of the new guidelines’ daily fiber recommendation of 28 grams per 2,000-calorie intake), pears are the first fruit listed in the guideline’s appendix of top fiber sources.
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