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Coffee: A good source of...fiber?

Posted on Feb 25th 2007 7:48AM by Rigel Celeste
I swear, the news about coffee just keeps getting better and better! I hope it's not all too good to be true... Anyway, the latest is that coffee may actually be packed with soluble fiber.

Spanish researchers tested instant coffee, regular coffee, and espresso, and discovered that all contained measurable amounts of water soluble fiber -- with instant coffee containing the most at 1.8 grams per cup.

So, the good news is that your cup o' joe is helping your diet more than you had realized. But the bad news is that you can't count on coffee to contribute all that much to meeting your daily fiber needs, unless of course you plan on drinking 17 cups per day of the stuff.

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