Fibre and High Output Stomas

Food	Low Fibre (Include)	Moderate Fibre (Occasionally)	High Fibre (Avoid)
Carbohydrates
Breads	White bread, toast, rolls, chapatti, pitta or naan bread. Crackers and crispbreads made with white flour e.g. Cream crackers, Ritz biscuits	White bread with added fibre e.g. mighty white / best of both etc. Part baked rolls/breads	Wholemeal, seeded or granary bread, pitta, brown Chapatti, wholemeal / rye crackers e.g. Krackerwheat, Ryvita or Hovis
Pastries	Pastry made with white flour		Pastry made with wholemeal flour
Cereals	White flour, cornflour, semolina, tapioca, sago		Wholemeal flour, Bran
Rice and Pasta	White Rice, white pasta, ravioli, tinned spaghetti	Quinoa Couscous Cold pasta	Wholegrain pasta, Brown rice
Breakfast Cereals	Cornflakes, Rice Krispies, Frosties, Ricicles, Coco Pops, Special K	Ready Brek, Porridge	Weetabix, Muesli, Shredded Wheat, Fruit ‘n’ Fibre, Bran Flakes, All Bran
Proteins
Meat and meat alternatives	All plain meat, poultry, offal and game	Soya/Quorn/TVP Tofu	Tough or chewy meats
Fish & Eggs	All fresh fish & eggs	Breaded/battered fish, fishfingers, fish cakes and Scotch eggs	None
Milk & dairy	All milk, cream, crème fresh, artificial cream	None	None
Vegetables (ensure well cooked)	Potato (no skin), yams, sweet potato, carrots, swede, turnip, skinned and de-seeded tomatoes, cooked peppers, marrow, courgettes	Cauliflower and broccoli florets, cabbage, asparagus, artichoke, spinach, lettuce, onion, tomato, green beans	Baked beans, kidney beans and other beans, peas, lentils, sweetcorn, chickpeas, potato skin, mushrooms, tomato skins, raw vegetables
Fats/Oils	All	None	None
Food	Low Fibre (Include)	Moderate Fibre (Occasionally)	High Fibre (Avoid)
Soups	Home-made, tinned or packet chicken, oxtail	Packet vegetable soups	Pea, lentil and vegetable soup
Puddings and Cakes	Plain or smooth fruit flavoured / strained yoghurt, instant desserts e.g. jelly, custard, angel delight, ice cream. Plain cakes, scones, pancakes and puddings made with white flour.	Crumbles	Puddings and cakes made with wholemeal flour, dried fruit and nuts. Yoghurts containing nuts or cereal
Biscuits	Plain sweet biscuits e.g. Rich tea, Malted milk, Marie, Nice, Custard creams, Bourbons.		Digestives, Hobnobs, biscuits with fruit or nuts e.g. Garibaldi, fruit shorties, and fig rolls
Fruit	Small portions of peeled fruit e.g. apple, pear, melon, tinned fruit, stewed fruit, unripe bananas (green)	Ripe bananas. Small serving of fruit juice (100ml), oranges, tangerines, satsumas	Dried fruit fruit with peel, pip, pith or seeds berries, grapes, pomegranate
Sweets and Chocolate	Plain boiled sweets, pastilles, plain chocolate, toffees, fudge, jelly sweets, marshmallows		Sweets and chocolates made with fruit or nuts, liquorice
Preserves	Smooth jam, jelly, marmalade, honey, syrup, treacle, and lemon curd	Jam and marmalade with fruit pips and skins.	Sweet mincemeat
Food	Low Fibre (Include)	Moderate Fibre (Occasionally)	High Fibre (Avoid)
Misc.	Gravy, white sauce, salt, pepper, herbs, spices, mayonnaise, salad cream, brown sauce, tomato ketchup, vinegar, Bovril, Oxo, Marmite, Potato crisps, pretzels, tortilla chips, corn snacks e.g. Wotsits, Nik Naks, Quavers. Artificial sweeteners e.g. saccharin, candarel	Pickle and Chutneys	Nuts, seeds, olives, coconut Twiglets, crisps with “jacket” Artificial sweeteners ending in “ol” e.g. sorbitol, mannitol