Help! What can I eat if I am on a Low FODMAP diet?
BASIC GUIDE TO Low FODMAP food (good to eat food)
If quantities are given these are the highest amount allowed
Vegetables and Legumes
· Alfalfa
· Bamboo shoots
· Bean sprouts
· Bok choy / pak choi
· Broccoli – avoid large servings
· Brussel sprouts – 50g
· Butternut squash – 1/3 cup
· Cabbage – 1 serving of 3/4 cup
· Carrots
· Celery – 10g of stalk
· Collard greens
· Corn / sweet corn- if tolerable and only in small amounts – 1/2 cob
· Courgette
· Chilli – if tolerable
· Chives
· Cucumber
· Eggplant / aubergine
· Fennel
· Green beans
· Green pepper (green bell pepper)
· Ginger
· Kale
· Leek leaves
· Lentils – in small amounts
· Lettuce
· Marrow
· Okra
· Olives
· Parsnip
· Radish
· Red peppers (red bell pepper)
· Potato
· Pumpkin
· Pumpkin, canned – 1/3 cup, 75g
· Scallions / spring onions (green part)
· Seaweed (nori)
· Silverbeet / chard
· Spaghetti squash
· Spinach, baby
· Squash
· Swede
· Sweet potato – 1/2 cup
· Tomato – avoid cherry tomato
· Turnip
· Yam
· Zucchini
Fruit
· Bananas
· Blueberries
· Boysenberry
· Cantaloupe
· Cranberry
· Clementine
· Dragonfruit
· Grapes
· Honeydew and Galia melons
· Kiwifruit
· Lemon including lemon juice
· Lime
· Mandarin
· Orange
· Passion fruit
· Paw paw
· Papaya
· Pineapple
· Raspberry
· Rhubarb
· Strawberry
· Tangelo
Meats, Poultry and Meat Substitutes
· Chicken
· Beef
· Lamb
· Pork
· Prosciutto
· Quorn, mince
· Turkey
· Cold cuts / deli meat / cold meats such as ham and turkey breast
Fish and Seafood
· Canned tuna
· Fresh fish e.g.
· Salmon
· Cod
· Haddock
· Plaice
· Trout
· Seafood (ensuring nothing else is added) e.g.
· Crab
· Lobster
· Shrimp
· Mussels
· Oysters
Cereals, Grains, Breads, Biscuits, Pasta, Nuts and Cakes
· Wheat free or gluten free breads
· Bread made from oats, rice, corn, and potato flours
· Wheat free or gluten free pasta
· Buckwheat noodles
· Rice noodles
· Porridge and oat based cereals
· Cornflakes – 1/2 cup
· Rice bran
· Rice Krispies
· Almonds – max of 10
· Amaranth
· Brazil nuts
· Bulgur / bourghal – 1/4 cup cooked, 44g serving
· Buckwheat
· Buckwheat flour
· Brown rice / whole grain rice
· Cornflour / maize
· Crispbread
· Corncakes
· Coconut – milk, cream, flesh
· Corn tortillas, 3 tortillas
· Hazelnuts – max of 15
· Macadamia – max of 10
· Millet
· Oats
· Oatcakes
· Peanuts
· Pecans – max of 10 halves
· Pine nuts – 1 tablespoon (14g)
· Polenta
· Popcorn
· Potato chips, plain
· Potato flour
· Pumpkin seeds – max of 1 – 2 tbsp
· Quinoa
· Rice cakes
· Rice crackers
· Rice flour
· Sesame seeds – max of 2 tbsp
· Spelt
· Sunflower seeds – max of 2 teaspoons hulled
· Sorgum
· Tortilla chips
· Walnuts – max of 10
· White rice
Condiments, Sweets, Sweeteners and Spreads
· Aspartame
· Acesulfame K
· Barbecue sauce
· Chocolate, dark
· Chutney, 1 tablespoon
· Fish sauce
· Garlic infused oil
· Golden syrup
· Glucose
· Jam / jelly, strawberry
· Ketchup (USA) – 1 sachet
· Maple syrup
· Marmalade
· Mayonnaise – can contain garlic or onion infused oil or replacer
· Mustard
· Olive oil
· Oyster sauce
· Pesto sauce – 1/2 tbsp
· Peanut butter
· Saccharine
· Soy sauce
· Stevia
· Sweet and sour sauce
· Sucralose
· Sugar – also called sucrose
· Tomato sauce (outside USA) – 2 sachets, 13g
· Vegemite
· Vinegar, balsamic – less than 2 tbsp
· Vinegar, rice wine
· Worcestershire sauce
Drinks
· Alcohol – is an irritant to the gut, limited intake advised:
· Beer – limited to one drink
· Clear spirits such as Vodka
· Gin
· Whiskey
· Wine – limited to one drink
· Coffee, espresso, regular or decaffeinated, black
· Coffee, espresso, regular or decaffeinated, with up to 250ml lactose free milk
· Coffee, instant, regular or decaffeinated, black
· Coffee, instant, regular or decaffeinated, with up to 250ml lactose free milk
· Espresso, regular, black
· Fruit juice, 125ml and safe fruits only
· Lemonade – in low quantities
· Soya milk made with soy protein
· Sugar free fizzy drinks / soft drinks / soda – such as diet coke, in low quantities as aspartame and acesulfame k can be irritants
· ‘Sugar’ fizzy drinks / soft drinks / soda that do no contain HFCS such as lemonade, cola. Limit intake due to these drinks being generally unhealthy and can cause gut irritation
· Tea, black, weak e.g. PG Tips
· Tea, chai, weak
· Tea, fruit and herbal, weak – ensure no apple added
· Tea, green
· Tea, peppermint
· Tea, white
· Water
Dairy Foods and Eggs
· Butter
· Cheese, brie
· Cheese, camembert
· Cheese, cheddar
· Cheese, cottage
· Cheese, feta
· Cheese, goat / chevre
· Cheese, mozzarella
· Cheese, ricotta – 2 tablespoons
· Cheese, swiss
· Dairy free chocolate pudding
· Eggs
· Lactose free milk
· Lactose free yoghurt
· Margarine
· Oat milk
· Parmesan cheese
· Rice milk
· Sorbet
· Soy protein (avoid soya beans)
· Swiss cheese
· Tempeh
· Tofu
· Whipped cream
Cooking ingredients, Herbs and Spices
· Herbs: Basil, Cilantro, Coriander, Mint, Oregano, Parsley, Rosemary, Tarragon, Thyme
· Spices: All spice, Cinnamon, Cumin, Five spice, Paprika, Turmeric
· Baking powder
· Baking soda
· Cocoa powder
· Cream, 1/2 cup
· Gelatine
· Ghee
· Icing sugar
· Lard
· Salt
· Vegetable oil
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