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All the fibre we eat comes from plants — fruit, vegetables, wholegrains, beans and nuts. Meat, fish and dairy contain none at all.

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Fibre is the part of plant food the body cannot fully digest, and that is exactly what makes it useful: it feeds gut bacteria, slows digestion and helps everything move through. Because it exists only in plants, a day with no fruit, veg, beans or wholegrains is usually a day with almost no fibre.

Türkçe

Aynı kart, başka bir dilde.

Yediğimiz tüm lif bitkilerden gelir — meyve, sebze, tam tahıl, baklagiller ve kuruyemiş. Et, balık ve süt ürünlerinde hiç yoktur.

Lif, bitkisel gıdanın bedenin tam sindiremediği kısmıdır; onu yararlı kılan da tam olarak budur: Bağırsak bakterilerini besler, sindirimi yavaşlatır ve bağırsak hareketlerini destekler. Yalnızca bitkilerde bulunduğu için; meyvesiz, sebzesiz, baklagilsiz ve tam tahılsız bir gün, genellikle neredeyse lifsiz bir gündür.

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