Tracked as a goal
Fiber tracking
- Unit
- g
- Default goal
- 30 g
- Direction
- Reach
What it is, and why people track it
Dietary fiber is the carbohydrate that is not digested. It supports bowel regularity, feeds gut bacteria, slows glucose absorption and contributes to satiety — and intake in most Western countries sits well below the recommended level.
It is a good example of why a tracker limited to three macros is limiting: fiber is a carbohydrate, so a carbs-only view hides it entirely, and it is the number a lot of people are actually being told to increase.
Setting your number
AIM starts at 30 g a day, in line with common guidance of roughly 25 g for women and 38 g for men, or about 14 g per 1,000 kcal. Increase intake gradually and with water — a sudden jump is uncomfortable.
How good is the estimate?
Reasonable. Fiber follows fairly predictably from identifying the food, though whole versus refined grain matters and is not always visible. Saying “wholemeal” is worth doing.
Questions
- How much fiber should I eat a day?
- Common guidance is about 25 g a day for women and 38 g for men, or roughly 14 g per 1,000 kcal. AIM defaults to 30 g and you can change it.
Also in this group
Protein
Protein is the metric most people open a tracker for. AIM estimates it per ingredient rather than per meal, so a swap of chicken for tofu shows up where it happened.
Carbs
Carbohydrate, broken out per ingredient, with fiber and sugar tracked separately so “carbs” does not have to mean three different things at once.
Fat
Total fat per meal, with saturated fat tracked separately as a cap — because they are two different questions and one number cannot answer both.
Sugar
Sugar is a cap in AIM, not a goal — a number to stay under, with a warning at the meal that takes you past it rather than a bar that keeps cheerfully filling.
Track fiber without a database search
AIM estimates it on every meal from a photo or a sentence, and lets you correct anything it got wrong just by saying so.