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Where fibre actually is
The viewer can name three foods that genuinely move their fibre intake, and stops relying on products marketed as high-fibre.
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The hook
“Most people get half the fibre they need. Not because it is hard.”
First four seconds. It states the surprise outright rather than promising one, because a promise is a reason to scroll and a surprise is a reason to stay.
Why this topic is worth 75 seconds
Most adults get about half the fibre their guidelines call for. That gap is the whole reason the video exists.
The video should refuse to name a supplement. Real fibre arrives with the water, chewing time and nutrients that make it work.
The winners in the fibre league are cheap, unglamorous and already in most kitchens: beans, oats, wholegrain bread. That reframe is the beat that changes a shopping list.
Fibre is the nutrient with the widest gap between recommended and actual intake in most European diets, and the fix is not a supplement — it is a handful of ordinary foods that are much higher in it than people assume.
Ranking foods by fibre per hundred calories rather than per hundred grams makes the answer obvious and shifts attention away from cereal-box marketing.
The storyboard
| Time | On screen | Voiceover | Visual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0:00–0:05 | Half of what you need | Most people get about half the fibre they need. Not because it is hard. | An empty-looking vegetable drawer. |
| 0:05–0:18 | What it does | Fibre is the part of plant food you do not digest. It slows things down, feeds gut bacteria, and is one of the few things in nutrition that almost every guideline body agrees on. | Simple animation of food moving through, slowly. |
| 0:18–0:36 | Rank by fibre per calorie | Ranked per hundred calories rather than per hundred grams, the winners are not the ones on the cereal box. Beans, lentils, berries, whole vegetables. | Leaderboard sorting itself, cereal box visibly not in it. |
| 0:36–0:54 | The realistic fix | You do not need a supplement. Adding a tin of beans to something you already cook does more than any product marketed at you for it. | Tin opened, contents going into a normal pan of food. |
| 0:54–1:08 | Go slowly | One honest warning: increase it gradually and drink water alongside. Doubling your fibre in a day is a bad afternoon. | Calendar with a gradual ramp drawn on it. |
| 1:08–1:15 | Look yours up | Every food page shows fibre per hundred grams. | End card: /calories. |
Read it as a script
The voiceover column, in order, is the whole piece:
Most people get about half the fibre they need. Not because it is hard.
Fibre is the part of plant food you do not digest. It slows things down, feeds gut bacteria, and is one of the few things in nutrition that almost every guideline body agrees on.
Ranked per hundred calories rather than per hundred grams, the winners are not the ones on the cereal box. Beans, lentils, berries, whole vegetables.
You do not need a supplement. Adding a tin of beans to something you already cook does more than any product marketed at you for it.
One honest warning: increase it gradually and drink water alongside. Doubling your fibre in a day is a bad afternoon.
Every food page shows fibre per hundred grams.
Every number this script shows
The leaderboard, ranked by fibre per 100 kcal rather than per 100 g.
| What appears on screen | Value | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| #1 Green beans | 9.1 g per 100 kcal (3.2 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| #2 Broccoli | 7.6 g per 100 kcal (2.6 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| #3 Strawberries | 6.3 g per 100 kcal (2.0 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| #4 Apple | 4.6 g per 100 kcal (2.4 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| #5 Oats | 2.7 g per 100 kcal (10.6 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| #6 White bread | 1.0 g per 100 kcal (2.7 g/100 g) | TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) |
| Reference daily intake used on screen | 25-30 g/day | European dietary guidance for adults |
Nothing in the storyboard above quotes a figure directly. The beats refer to numbers and this table supplies them, so a script written months ago cannot go stale against its own data.
Production notes
- The leaderboard should be built from real database rows, shown in the figures table on this page.
- The tin-of-beans beat is deliberately unglamorous. Do not style it up.
- Keep the go-slowly warning. It is the difference between advice that gets followed and advice that gets abandoned on day two.
Closing card
Fibre figures for every food at tempolife.app/calories
General information, not medical advice. These scripts describe averages across populations; nothing in them is a diagnosis or a treatment recommendation.
Source: Figures computed from the TempoLife food database (USDA FoodData Central SR Legacy) and the 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities · checked 2026-09-02
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