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Remember the percentage of fat is the important thing. If you eat only 1 gram of fat but only eat 20 calories it is too high! The fat grams are useless without an idea of calorie count.
So for these: 50 out of 190 calories is just over 25% and ok, even eaten alone.
90 out of 220 calories is over 40% and is too high (unless low fat side dishes are eaten with it to up the cal count and reduce the percentage).
Luckily the calories from fat is on most nutrition labels now up at the top so you don't have to figure out the amount of fat calories (it is 9 cals per gram of fat). And you just divide the fat cals into the total cals for the percentage.

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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!

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