Unfortunately, the average American woman appears to eat less than fifteen grams of fiber per day—only about half the minimum daily recommendation.92 Even the average vegetarian in the United States may only get about twenty grams daily.93 Healthier vegetarians, though, may average thirty-seven grams a day, and vegans forty-six grams daily.94 Meanwhile, the whole-food, plant-based diets used therapeutically to reverse chronic disease contain upward of sixty grams of fiber.
