High-fiber fruits and vegetables rankings
Vegetables and fruits ranked food name dietary fiber (g/100g) food name dietary fiber (g/100g)1 Fishweed 11.8 Sour jujubes 10.62 Cauliflower 7.7 Kurla Pear 6.73 Okra 4.4 Red jade apple 4.74 Hairy beans 4 Coconut meat 4.75 Porcini mushrooms 3.9 mulberries 4.16 Colorful pepper 3.3 Olives 4.07 Shiitake mushrooms 3.3 Dates 3.88 Peas 3.0 Ginseng fruits 3.59 Spring asparagus 2.8 Plantains 3.110 Pumpkin 2.7 Hawthorn 3.1 Benefits of eating high-fiber sparse fruits
Prevention of lipid metabolism
Regularly consuming high-fiber foods reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease. Dietary fiber intake was negatively associated with the development of both fatal and non-fatal coronary heart disease, and the risk of cardiovascular disease death was reduced by 20% in those who ate a dietary fiber-rich whole grain breakfast daily.
Breast cancer prevention
Dietary fiber and breast cancer studies have shown that dietary fiber, especially whole grains, is negatively associated with breast cancer, but some studies have attributed this to an increase in associated B vitamins and a decrease in fat.