The hospital has told my wife that she has to eat a low fibre diet. They have given her a diet sheet that covers the main foods but we are looking to widen the range.
Can anyone recommend low fibre vegetables? Are mushrooms low fibre? Is there a good internet website that provides a good source of information?
Hi PhilFreeToAsk ,
Have you asked the doctor for a longer list before leaving the hospital? Can either you or your wife call them and ask for more suggestions for low fiber vegetables?
Thanks Activity2004.
The diet sheet is a standard list from the NHS. All the stuff that you would expect is on it chicken, dairy etc. Of course, on this forum we extol the virtue of a plant based, wholefood grains - so maybe this is the wrong forum to post.
Vegetables and fruits have now become a bit of a no-go area. Cooked peeled carrots are on the list. Hurrah!!
I would like some healthy plant food for her. Maybe a way of cooking them or turning them into smoothies may help. Any suggestions on that front would be most welcome.
Does your wife like smoothies, PhilFreeToAsk ? If she does, what fruits/vegetables to add in them?
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We are buying tinned soups such as carrot & coriander.
I have made her apple puree and this can be mixed with yoghurt. Apple is supposedly good for the digestion.
We also bought some avocados which is very nutritious but low in fibre. So I think we have got somewhere.
Thanks for pointing out smoothies.
Smoothies are good for two reasons. First, they can be digested quickly. Second, they have protein and some carbs together depending on what you add to them (they also taste good!).
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Lots more like this on't'interweb!
Making smoothies won't alter the fibre content of any foods, it just makes some things easier/quicker to swallow. This website recommends cooked pureed foods, though your Mrs might need to make sure she has some extra vitamin C in her diet, as it's destroyed by cooking. health.com/health/gallery/0...
Removing the skins from some fruit & veg will reduce the amount of fibre.
Some of the sheets say milk's good. I'd go a step further & suggest adding kefir. chriskresser.com/kefir-the-...
Thanks. Some good links to look at and your advice on smoothies.
We were discussing whether she should take a supplement and we came to the conclusion that her body should have enough stored so it is not a problem. The one vitamin that we were concerned about was Vit C. We decided given the circumstances that supplementing maybe good and now we need to consider C as well.
We would discuss any radical diet changes with the hospital and I would not introduce Kefir at this stage. I am keen on fermented foods and make my own sauerkraut which is a good source of Vitamin C and B12. That now has to be put on hold until things return to normal.
B as well as C vitamins are water soluble, so need to be ingested regularly.
It's only the fat soluble A,D, E vitamins that the body can store. If your wife's lost weight since being ill, this may be something you need to be aware of.
Hope she's feeling better soon!
Thanks. She will start taking a food state multivitamin and mineral supplement later today. They are absorbed better and recognised by the body as food. We are looking at what Vitamin C supplement to add as well.
Fresh squeezed orange or grapefruit juice will have the C without the fibre. I take a Floradix iron supplement, with some added B's & C, but eat an orange or grapefruit when I take it, for natural C & folate.
A food state vitamin C does come from a natural source. They grow brassicas and they absorb vitamin C from citrus pulp hydroponically (cytoplan.co.uk/faqs/what-is... and harvest the brassicas for vitamin C.
This is why brassicas grown on a good soil produces is such a good source of natural nutrients.
You grow them that way?
Aren't brassicas high in fibre?
Sorry for the misunderstanding. This is how the Vitamin C supplement is grown for food state vitamins. They use brassicas to absorb nutrients and then process the crop to turn into supplements. It means the vitamin supplement is absorbed as food which is why food state Iron supplements are not constipating.
This link explains more cytoplan.co.uk/faqs/what-is...
Ah, I see!
You'd recommend this company? I looked at the website last week, but the B12 is out of stock.
Yes, Highly recommended and reputable. I have been using them for years.
Initially, the supplements were recommended to me by the owner of my local health shop so they are not just sold over the Internet.
I went to a talk by David Barrie who works for the supplement company for many years. His talk was passionate, informative and quite damning about the drop in food nutrition produced by UK agriculture since 1900s (he used official UK goverment figures).
He has also run a one-man campaign against the NHS selling junk food in the hospitals. See naturalproductsonline.co.uk...
It was when he explained about the nature of broccoli just naturally absorbs the nutrients that it made me realise how important brassicas are in the diet if it is grown on nutrient rich soil. So when grandma said “eat your greens”, she was right!!! It is good for you.
I came across them in a search for sublingual B12, a few weeks ago, but hadn't heard of them before. My current brand is effective, but the company unethical.
It's apalling that junk food is widely sold in schools. The food industry has a lot to answer for, as do pharmaceuticals!
I'm well aware of the vagaries of modern farming, having half a degree in environmental science. What I learned re agri-chemicals & soil depletion changed what I eat, & where I shop, though I can't always get or afford organic.
I was pleased to find my son was hapy to eat brocolli when he was young. The benefits are amazing. It's a pity they're trying to grow out the bitter taste to make it more popular, as that's the good bit.
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”
Are low carb diets any good?
Hidden sugar in everyday foods, 
