Yummy FODMAPs

Your dietician will have taken you through a plan where you will start your Low FODMAP Diet to monitor your reaction to different high FODMAP foods to find a diet that suits your individual body.

The Bad news - many of the often used foods that add flavour to our meals are high FODMAP

The Good news - there are really great alternative Low FODMAP flavours that can be used  and it is all about discovering what these alternatives are and how they can be combined - in busy homes - so everyone can still enjoy meal times.

Why FODMAP restriction?

FODMAP restriction has been found to improve the control of symptom in people with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID)

FODMAP is an acronym, derived from "Fermentable Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols

FODMAPs are naturally present in food and the human diet and are short chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed in the small intestine. They include short chain oligo-saccharide polymers of fructose (fructans) and galactooligosaccharides (GOS, stachyose, raffinose), disaccharides (lactose), monosaccharides (fructose), and sugar alcohols (polyols), such as maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol, and xylitol

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