While researching dietary fiber for this article, I decided to eat a whole kiwi skin. I looked it up, and the skin adds about 1.5 grams of fiber to a serving of kiwi, about 6% of my total recommended dietary allowance – not a bad amount for such a small snack.
Many folks opt for the fruit plus skin – my own children eat skin-on kiwis all the time – but I couldn’t get through half the small fruit without gagging.
The good news: Choking down fruit peels is not required to get a healthy amount of fiber in your diet, say Stanford Medicine nutrition experts.
“With my clients, I try to change one thing at a time, because people don’t do well with complete overhauls,” said Marily Oppezzo, PhD, a dietician and instructor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. “I had one client who ate a lot of dry Captain Crunch cereal as a snack. I said, ‘That’s cool, what if we just mix in some popcorn too?’”
Read Full Article Here
