January 30, 2024 - Adults in the United Kingdom should increase their fibre intake to the recommended 30g daily. UK Flour Millers is launching this year's Fibre February campaign to bridge the gap between fibre awareness and intake, helping people live healthier lives.
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UK Flour Millers, the UK's flour industry trade body, is supporting Fibre February by increasing their social media activity to highlight facts about fibre, health benefits associated with fibre, and flour's contribution to fibre.They are partnering with organisations such as the British Nutrition Foundation, Food a Fact of Life, Food & Drink Federation (FDF), and Federation of Bakers to reach as wide a UK audience as possible, since the lack of enough daily fibre affects everyone.
"Fibre helps to keep our gut healthy and can help reduce constipation. A high fibre diet may help to reduce our risk of heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, and colorectal cancer," Dr Stacey Lockyer, BSc(Hons) MSc PhD RNutr, who is senior nutrition scientist as the British Nutrition Foundations said. "However, on average, intakes of fibre in the UK are well below recommendations in all age groups. To get enough fibre in our diets it is important to include a variety of fibre-providing foods regularly, such as wholemeal bread, wholegrain breakfast cereals, brown pasta or rice, fruit, vegetables, pulses, nuts, seeds and potatoes with skins."
Currently, no age group is getting the recommended fibre intake. On top of UK Flour Millers' efforts, FAB Flour, or the Flour Advisory Bureau which is the consumer-facing programme of UK Flour Millers, will share information and even delicious flour - an fibre-filled recipes on their website and social media channels.
Alistair Gale, UK Flour Millers' chief executive officer, explained: "Fibre February is a fantastic campaign that not only promotes healthy lifestyles for people across the UK, but is also important to the flour milling industry. Many high-fibre products that we enjoy eating certain flour, so the hard work and dedication of flour millers truly nourishes the nation."
According to data from the FDF, only 1 in 3 people know that the recommended amount of fibre adults should consume 30g. Beyond that, approximately 70 percent of people are unaware if they meet that recommended amount, when FAB Flour states 75 percent of women and 50 percent of men need to increase their fibre consumption.
"High dietary fibre intake is associated with increased gut microbiota diversity," Paula Papa, UK Flour Millers' technical and regulatory affairs officer who has a MSc in food science, commented. "Fibre can increase good bacteria and have anti-inflammatory effects. Our industry is appropriately placed to bride the gap in fibre intake because although wholemeal wheat flour has the most fibre, all wheat flours contain fibre."
The importance of flour, and therefore flour milling, and its connection to fibre in the UK cannot be overstated, since FDF data also highlights the fact that cereals and cereal products make up the largest contribution of foods to fibre intake. Flour is one of the most common food ingredients in the UK, present in about a third of all supermarket food products. UK Flour Millers aims to increase awareness and consumption of fibre and flour during Fibre February.
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