High-Fiber Diet Food Selection Guide

Foods Allowed for a Healthy High-Fiber Diet

Protein-rich Foods

• All, use hard soybean cheese/curd (tokwa), legumes and nuts more than meats

Vegetables

• All, increase consumption of leafy vegetables like horse radish (malunggay) leaves, sweet potato (camote) tops/leaves, string beans, swamp cabbage (kangkong), spinach, cabbage, Chinese cabbage (pechay), etc. include stems, stalks, and leaves when possible

Carbohydrate-rich Foods

• All, grains and cereals, preferably unrefined. Others should be whole, with skin, seeds and membrane when possible

Fruits

• All, papaya, pineapple, oranges (preferably with pulp and inner skin)

Juices

• Prune juice, papaya juice

• All fruit juices that are freshly prepared; Include pulp

Foods NOT Allowed

Protein-rich Foods

• None

Vegetables

• None

Fruits

• For constipation, avoid banana, apple, star apple (kaimito) and sapodilla (chico)

Note: For more Tips on Healthy High-Fiber Diet See High-Fiber Diet

Reference: Healing Wonders of Diet Effective Guide to Diet Therapy p.108 © 2003 Philippine Publishing House ISBN 971-581-013-6