As the name suggests, Fiber One products are a line of high-fiber foods. Consumer reviews seem to support the advertising claims that these are high-fiber products with great taste and texture. The fiber comes from natural grains and plant sources, and they provide between 20 to 57 percent of the recommended daily amount of fiber.
Definition
General Mills produces the Fiber One products. As of February 2010, the line included muffins, toaster pastries, cottage cheese, milkshakes, pancake and muffin mix, bread, yogurt, chewy bars and a ready-to-eat cereal. In-depth nutrition information is only available for the cereal; those values come from the USDA database as provided by NutritionData.com. All other nutrition information comes from the product labels.
Cereal - Basic Nutrition
One-half cup of cereal (with no milk) has 60 calories, 2 grams (g) of protein and 25 g of carbohydrates. Its fiber content is 14.2 g, which represents 57 percent of the recommended daily value (DV) based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.
Cereal - Vitamins
In addition to natural nutrition from bran and whole grain wheat flour, Fiber One cereal is enriched with vitamins and minerals. One serving provides 25 percent of the daily value of thiamin (0.4 mg), riboflavin (0.4 mg), niacin (5.0 mg), vitamin B6 (0.5 mg) and vitamin B12 (1.5 micrograms). The natural grains supply 99.9 micrograms (mcg) of folate plus 94 mcg of added folic acid. You'll also gain 6.0 mg of vitamin C (10 percent DV).
Cereal - Minerals
Fiber One cereal is a great source of iron (4.5 mg or 25 percent DV), manganese (0.6 mg or 29 percent DV), zinc (3.8 mg or 25 percent DV), phosphorus (150 mg or 15 percent DV) and magnesium (39.9 mg or 10 percent DV). It also provides 4 to 5 percent DV of potassium (180 mg), sodium (105 mg), copper (0.1 mg) and selenium (2.7 mcg).
Fiber
The ready-to-eat cereal derives its fiber naturally from corn bran, wheat bran and whole grain wheat flour. To illustrate their value, consider the fiber in a 1-ounce serving of each: Corn bran has 22 g (88 percent DV), wheat bran has 12 g (48 percent) and whole grain wheat flour has 3 g (14 percent DV). All of the Fiber One baked goods are made from whole grain wheat flour, but another source of dietary fiber called inulin is added to all but the cereal.
Inulin
Inulin is a natural plant carbohydrate that is not digested in the stomach; rather it travels to the intestine where it functions as both a dietary fiber and a prebiotic that helps to nourish the good bacteria. Inulin can be found in many plants, but one plant with a high amount is chicory, so the ingredient you'll see on the product label that provides inulin is chicory root extract.
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