This week I was researching ways to naturally supplement our diet with fiber and was led down an interesting path. There's an abundance of summer fruits in California right now - pluots, grapes, peaches, nectarines, pineapples, mangos, watermelon, honeydew - the list goes on. I figured one of these fruits would be a good source of fiber. I picked pineapple to Google since I always get little pineapple threads stuck in my teeth (which on second thought, I should have picked mangos).
Who would have guessed that "Pineapple fiber is considered to be more delicate in texture than any other vegetal fiber. About 60 cm long, white and creamy and lustrous as silk, it easily takes and retain dyes."
Since the site wasn't explicit which part of the pineapple produce this wonderous fabric, I was imagining that perhaps it was the core. What would happen if we ate this as a dietary supplement or drank it down in a finely blended smoothie? But upon further research, I was disappointed to find that it's the pineapple leaves that makes piña. The picture from Wikipedia shows someone "scraping a pineapple leaf to reveal its fibers"
Leaf or not, pineapples do have quite a bit of fiber. Each cup contains 70 calories about 2 grams of fiber. Mangos though have even more 107 calories, 3g fiber per cup. DietDetective.com compares the fiber content from various fruits, both fresh and dried. Guess which fruit is the king of fiber?
3 comments:
i think i'd rather eat a mango for my fiber rather than the pineapple leaf.
pineapple is still good though!
and this can be used as a good medice against the stomach problems, and I know because I passed some time with a native and he teach me a lot thing about nature and it medicines.
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