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[–] xep@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Adding ketchup on the bread and drinking fruit juices sweetened with high fructose corn syrup will increase the number of plant sources in such a diet without increasing dietary fiber. My point is, it's not plant variety that matters, but how heavily processed the plants are.

[–] UsernameHere@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Ketchup, bread and fruit juice all have fiber. So they do in fact increase the dietary fiber.

Whether or not your diet is “low fiber” is decided by how much of these things you eat. If you eat a low quantity your diet will be low in fiber.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder what the "Western Style" diet consists of then, since it so low in fiber.

[–] UsernameHere@lemy.lol 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Animal products would be my guess since they don’t contain any fiber at all.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So just meat without anything else?

[–] UsernameHere@lemy.lol 2 points 1 month ago

Since fiber only comes from plants, it’s implied that “low-fiber diet” just means less fiber than what we need. Not necessarily meat without anything else.

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