Dr. Trisha Pasricha

They have just been incredibly well studied and studied for their natural laxative properties.

Now, prunes are probably the one that we've all heard of because that's the ones that our grandmothers have been using for a long, long time.

And I found when I started my GI practice that it was very hard to get any of my younger patients, like my high school or college patients, to eat prunes.

That just didn't strike them as the cool thing to do.

But luckily for us all, two really nice randomized controlled trials came on the scene of two kiwis a day, which seemed to be just as efficacious as prunes in eliciting more complete spontaneous bowel movements every day,

But also the nice thing about kiwis is that it doesn't seem to cause bloating, which is a big complaint of people who eat a ton of prunes is that they feel pretty bloated afterwards.

Kiwis don't seem to do that.

So if you're looking for that natural option and you're like, I think I'm eating a lot of fiber.

I think I'm drinking a lot of water.

What else can I do?

Kiwis are something I recommend all the time.

You don't have to eat the peel.

Let me just say that up front.

Although you could, it's packed with fiber.

I've tried it.

It's kind of tangy.

But you don't have to.

And then you could eat the studies.

They've actually looked at gold and green kiwi.

So you have, you know, whatever is available in your grocery store, that's the one for you.