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The NutriBase Guide to Fat and Fiber in Your Food

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Overall, this book is pretty much what you would expect, a catalog of foods and their fat/fiber content. Specifically, for each food is listed serving size, total calories, grams of fiber, grams of fat, and percent of calories from fat. My biggest criticism would be that this book does not break fiber down to soluble and insoluble fiber, nor is fat broken down to saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated.

The book is 12 pages of intro (basic intro material about what is fat/fiber and the importance of paying attention to it), followed by 660 pages of alphabetized food items. The remaining 77 pages lists fast-foods catagorized by restaurant.

The 660 page catalog is the bulk of the book, and seems to be reasonably complete. It lists both generic and brand name items. As an example, I looked up "eggs, chicken" and found the following items. Cooked: fried, hard-boiled, hard-boiled & chopped, poached, scrambled. Dried: unsifted, sifted, stabilized & glucose reduced, stabilized & glucose reduced & sifted. Pickled. Raw: fresh or frozen. Egg whites and egg yolks are listed separately, as are duck eggs, goose eggs, quail eggs, egg alternatives (Egg-Beaters, Scramblers, Egg-Watchers), and freeze dried and frozen prepared egg breakfasts.

The Last 77 pages were not so complete, but did include some regional and smaller restaurants. Included were all the big national chains, of course, but also Carl's Jr., Swenson's, Del Taco, and Rally's. However, Bob Evans, and Krispy Kreme are missing. By the way, is it true that nothing at Wendy's has any fiber to speak of? Even the chili! Doesn't their chili have any beans!

One final note. Some (a few on each page) of the measurements are given as "crude fiber" rather than "dietary fiber". Crude fiber is from an older and less accurate measuring method. It will always be less than or equal to dietary fiber (which is the measurement you're normally looking for). When only the crude measurement is available, it is marked as such.