Dietary fiber has many health benefits, including reducing the risk for heart disease, stroke, and obesity, according to the National Fiber Council. The American Heart Association recommends eating about 25 to 30 grams of dietary fiber per day, but the average American eats only about half that. If you are not getting the fiber you need from food, you might consider taking a fiber supplement. Chewable fiber tablets are convenient and come in many flavors.
FiberChoice
The GlaxoSmithKline company produces the line of FiberChoice products. Every pair of FiberChoice chewable tablets contains 4 g of soluble fiber. FiberChoice increases the soluble fiber in its tablets by adding cellulose and inulin. Inulin is a “natural vegetable fiber,” and it helps to increase calcium absorption. Flavors of FiberChoice chewable tablets include orange, sugar-free orange, and sugar-free assorted fruit, including green apple, grape and strawberry.
Benefiber
The Novartis Corporation manufactures Benefiber Chewables. Every three Benefiber chewable fiber tablets contain 3 g of soluble fiber, and the company recommends taking “three tablets up to three times daily” which would make a total of 9 g of soluble fiber from this supplement. The tablets are available in the original orange crème flavor and assorted fruit flavors. Also, Benefiber offers a fiber tablets in wild berry with 30 percent of the U.S. recommended dietary allowance of calcium per three tablets. All varieties are sugar-free. The sweeteners are aspartame and acesulfame potassium.
Fleet Pedia-Lax
A fiber supplement choice that children may prefer is Pedia-Lax fiber gummies. The C.B. Fleet Company targets children ages 2-11 years, and claims in its advertising that “fiber has never been so much fun.” Each penguin-shaped gummy has 1.5 g of fiber from polydextrose, and also includes black carrot juice. The gummies are fruit-flavored, calorie-free, and sugar-free. Instead of sugar, the sweeteners are sucralose and xylitol, which may reduce the risk of cavities.
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