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I Don't Like to Drink Fiber Supplements
LZ Granderson: I don't like to drink fiber anyway. That's why I like the chewable tabs. LZ: You can even buy unsweetened, you know, fiber supplements. But they all have these artificial sweeteners in them that completely record digestion and it makes my stomach hurt so bad. He says one particular fiber called cilia is the husk of a seed from a natively Mediterranean plant. It has exactly the right properties where it checks all the boxes for a fiber supplement - solubility, viscosity, gel formation -- but not super fermentable.