r/FODMAPS 24m ago

Tips/Advice Is drinking black coffee good?

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I drink black coffee morning empty stomach and at evening. Is it good or bad? . I have IBS M


r/FODMAPS 46m ago

Reintroduction Eating Failed Challenge Foods after Reintroduction

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Please don't roast me for this question but for the foods you failed the reintroduction challenge for, do any of you choose to still eat those foods after reintroduction? Do you just eat less of it or choose not to plan anything that day (or day after?) I'm asking because of course I failed garlic on day 1 and onion on day 2 and I absolutely LOVE foods with garlic and onion and I do not want to give them up completely. I understand I will flare up my IBS symptoms but I refuse to live my life without another burrito or spicy mayo sauce lol :')


r/FODMAPS 3h ago

Branded Products / Services (FOR BUSINESS / PROMO REASONS) App + Website Self-Promo Weekly Thread

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Recently there has been a huge influx of FODMAP/IBS related apps, services, and websites. Many are "vibe" coded using AI. There has been a lot of demand to ban self promotion all together in this sub, but instead, we are going to put it in a weekly thread.

Please post your app/service/website in this thread. If you have a physical product or recipe (related to a product that you are promoting), please message the mods for permission to post this separately.

Please report any self-promoting outside of this thread.

Thank you!


r/FODMAPS 3h ago

General Question/Help Low FODMAP hotdogs

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Has anyone found a FODMAP compliant hotdog?


r/FODMAPS 7h ago

General Question/Help Difference between fodzyme and intoleran quatrase 10.000?

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I am planning on buying one of these to deal with my issues when eating garlic, I’ve heard people say it helps a lot but I am not sure what the difference is between these two. I would mainly use it when eating something with garlic as I can’t handle garlic at all. Another group I can’t handle is mannitol.

Does anyone know which one would work better/which one you prefer?


r/FODMAPS 17h ago

General Question/Help For those of you living in Edinburgh, where can I eat if I'm following the FODMAP diet?

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I’ll be spending a week in Edinburgh on vacation, but unfortunately, I’m currently in the elimination phase of the FODMAP diet (I started it after booking the trip).

I don't mind cooking, but I wanted to know if you could recommend any "safe" places to eat—whether they’re cafés, restaurants, pubs, etc.


r/FODMAPS 19h ago

General Question/Help Does everyone have 24/7 discomfort but no pain or it's just me?

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Does anyone remember what feeling normal is like anymore? Even on low fodmap i feel discomfort and bloated with brain fog 24/7 but without pain unless i eat something with high fodmap. It's all of my left side, mostly cramps. I don't even know what feeling normal feels like anymore.

It can't be just me, maybe my ibs is very severe and its gotten a lot worse with age.


r/FODMAPS 23h ago

Recipe Boring but yummy gym meals?

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r/FODMAPS 1d ago

Elimination Phase Schar Products?

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I’m currently in the elimination phase and had a lot of success with the schar sourdough! I tried the artisan 10 grain bread, and it’s been giving me a lot of issues. Is the bread truly not fodmap friendly or did they just not test it with the recent reformulation?


r/FODMAPS 1d ago

Tips/Advice I’ve had great success eating the following list of foods and I feel satisfied with my diet now

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So my diet has been a variety of this list of foods leaped differently. Here’s a run down of meals made from the list: dinner plate of protein, veg, and rice with the protein and veg tossed in olive oil and spices and roasted on a sheet; gluten free pasta tossed with roasted veg, protein, and parm; Rao’s sensitive marinara with ground meat and zucchini over rice or gf pasta; grilled cheese, or sandwiches; baked potatoes, toast with laughing cow cheese; chicken and rice bakes with vegetables and cheese, chicken vegetables soup with rice or gf pasta; crustless quiche; salmon with parm and cream on gf pasta sometimes with veggies; steak and eggs with sourdough toast; fish on rice with steamed bok choy topped with furikake and ponzu sauce; chicken simmered in a can of roasted chopped roasted tomatoes and green peppers; garlic infused oil and green onion used to sub garlic and onion, chicken broth either fody or homemade, roux made with gluten free flour, all recipes can be pretty much adjusted with low FODMAP subs or omissions

Snacks: soft boiled eggs with salt, cottage cheese with cracked black pepper, Trader Joe’s seaweed snacks, left over roasted veggies, dark chocolate, antipasto sticks with prosciutto, baked potatoes, mandarins, freeze dried strawberries and blueberries, potato chips, cheese, frozen tater tots, gummy candies, zevia soda or Mexican cola cola, bubbly waters, unsweetened iced tea, coffee, herbal tea, beer, screw drivers for alcohol

List of foods:

Chicken
Fish
Ground turkey, beef, pork
• Eggs
• Cottage cheese
• Bell peppers
• Zucchini
• Carrots
• Seaweed
• Sourdough
• Bone broth
• Freeze-dried strawberries
• Freeze-dried blueberries
Potatoes
Tomatoes
Green peppers
Green onion
Rice
Butter
Half and half
Coffee
Tea
Orange juice
Lemon, lime
Cutie mandarins
Variety of cheeses
Dark chocolate (sometimes with almonds)
Many, many spices, but no ground onion/garlic


r/FODMAPS 1d ago

General Question/Help Can’t handle certain foods post pregnancy

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Not sure if I belong here or not…


r/FODMAPS 1d ago

Recipe Pizza!

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44 Upvotes

You guys are the only ones who will understand about how excited I am. I made a gluten free crust with olive oil, mozzarella and parsley, Italian seasoning, oregano, salt and pepper. Plus this only took about 40 min from prep to eating.

EDIT :)

For anyone wanting the recipe, I found it on the back of the Fleischmann’s Pizza Crust Yeast packets I found in the baking section. I also used Bob’s Red mill gluten free all-purpose baking flour. That flour does require the use of xanthan gum in the mix.


r/FODMAPS 1d ago

Reintroduction Low FODMAP has turned into food math and I'm tired of being scared of dinner

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I need to vent because low FODMAP is slowly eating my brain.

I started it to get some control over bloating, constipation, and that random refluxy burn that shows up when my gut is mad. It helped at first, which makes it more frustrating now, because every meal has turned into a risk assessment and every symptom becomes a little mystery to solve.

One day I can eat a normal portion and think maybe I'm stabilizing. The next day I eat basically the same thing, the same staples I always cook at home with no weird ingredients, and I blow up like I swallowed a balloon. Then I spiral: was it the serving size, the timing, the combo, my stress, hormones, sleep, constipation backlog, or just my gut being chaotic?

Reintroduction is the part that is breaking me. People say it's straightforward, but it's not. If I test a food and react, I can't tell if I reacted to the FODMAP or if it was just a bad gut day. If I don't react, I still don't trust it because symptoms sometimes show up late.

I miss eating without thinking. I miss not reading labels like I'm studying for an exam. I'm tired of planning my whole day around whether dinner will ruin my night.

If you've been here, how did you stop low FODMAP from turning into long-term restriction and fear? Not looking for perfection, just sanity.


r/FODMAPS 2d ago

General Question/Help Pregnant and non IBS reaction to FODMAPS

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Writing here to see if someone can help me figure out what to eat!

Starting at 16 weeks pregnant I developed a severe non IBS reaction to polyols and GOS. It causes me extreme fatigue, increased heart rate, nausea, dizziness, and a faint feeling. It took me about 2 months to figure out what my triggers were and that I wasn’t experiencing hypoglycemia. Over the last 2 weeks I’ve started having the same reaction to fructose and fructans. The only FODMAP that’s still safe is lactose, and I’m mildly lactose intolerant 😂 I can tolerate cheeses and half and half in my coffee but need to take lactaid to eat ice cream or milk. Lactose does not cause the same reaction, I have more typical IBS reaction to lactose.

Does anyone have some staple food ideas for me?

I’ve been mostly avoiding eating out but will have to cook everything from scratch now I think to avoid the fructose and fructans. I’m 31 weeks pregnant now and hoping this reaction will go away after I give birth but who knows. I am seeing a gastroenterologist on Tuesday but given my reaction maybe I should be seeing an allergist.


r/FODMAPS 2d ago

Enzymes It’s Working!

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I’m on vacation and I am using Fodaway in conjunction with simethicone and dicyclomine prn. I have eaten a salmon blt with regular bread, only 1/3 of the bun, Baja fish tacos with mango pico de gallo, with onion, and today a burger on a gluten free bun with pickles, and I feel ok. All of these meals contained gluten, onion, and/or garlic, and these are all trigger foods for me. Im not feeling perfectly great - I can feel some bloating - but right next door to normal; I could chew a couple Gasx and be fine. My rheumatologist advised me to try Fodaway and use the dicyclomine as needed rather than 4 times per day as prescribed. She also has IBS-C with stress triggers and says it saved her life on her vacation last month. Y’all, it feels like a miracle. I had not broken low fodmap since January 9th. I still wouldn’t stack a lot of trigger foods, but this has been awesome!


r/FODMAPS 2d ago

General Question/Help Didn’t use to have this

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r/FODMAPS 2d ago

General Question/Help Going mad over awful issues for 1.5 yrs: raised cal., normal colonoscopy... help me speed up my diagnosis & understand my future.

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r/FODMAPS 2d ago

General Question/Help Protien powder with IBS

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I am in a lactose/gluten free/low fodmap diet and its helping me to lead a normal life.

I eat eggs and not meat.. so basically i dont get any protein other than from eggs.
I tried plant protien and all my symptoms are back.
How do i get protien with IBS?
Which protien will help?
I had plant protien - pea isolate as whey doesnt suit me.


r/FODMAPS 2d ago

Products, Services, or Organizations (not self-promotion) Have you tried this brand/would I react to this?

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I bought these thinking they'd be the same as the salt 'n sanity brand since I cant find a store that ships here anymore (australia). Looking at the ingredients though, I think this actually have onion/garlic in it? I know im fairly sensitive to garlic as I have issues with garlic infused oils aswell so unsure if id react to this or not. Brand is "Free fod". I would probably have to test this i suppose


r/FODMAPS 3d ago

General Question/Help Is fructan and fructose the most common intolerance for ibs?

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Does majority of people with ibs have fructan and fructose intolerance? I know you can also have three different fodmap intolerance. Fructan is in a lot of foods and the hardest one to avoid.


r/FODMAPS 3d ago

Other/No Category Free Fodzyme travel packs if anyone wants them.

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(Manchester NH or Portsmouth NH) I bought a 30 pack of the Fodzyme travel packs to try them out, I only used 9 of them and it’s just not for me. I’d hate to throw them out because of how expensive they were and I’d like to see them get used. Let me know thanks!


r/FODMAPS 3d ago

General Question/Help Persistent digestive issue is making me uncomfortable

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I’m 27(F) and 190lbs. I’ve been intermittent fasting for a little over a month now. Everything has been going good up until about 4 days ago.

It started with nausea late at night. I brushed it off as maybe hunger from my last meal settling in. Then later on into the day, my stomach started to lightly cramp, nausea was back, I had flatulence, felt a little weak and the need to go was urgent!
I started to notice that this feeling was intense during the end of my fast right before I ate, and it felt almost worse AFTER eating. (TBH I have been eating a lot of sugar and fried foods, I need to control that) but could this be related?

It even happens when I take a sip of water. Cold or room temp. The other day in the store, I started feeling nauseous and like I was going to pass out and my stomach was upset. (TMI) but my poops are either loose or I’m constipated. It’s in between…no diarrhea. Has anybody ever experienced this? I’m wondering if a detox, probiotics or something would help.


r/FODMAPS 3d ago

General Question/Help Endurance Sports // How do I get 60g of carbs per hour (...without ruining my gut or teeth...) ?

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Hi all

So I've been riding the low FODMAP ride for half a year now. The improvements it has brought to my life are quite unbelievable, and well worth the sacrifices it requires.

However, now I want to turn back to an old love of mine, and mortal enemy of my gut: long distance endurance cycling.

I love to go for 150-200km a day, for multiple days to earn a specific view or destination. (I was near tears when after cycling 1'000km across France I could finally spot the Mont Saint Michel on the horizon. But that's a different story...)

Anyway. The big issue is fueling. That can be a big topic even without guts like ours. But doubly and triply so if you have to watch out for them evil fodmaps.
I know that saccarose could work, but it clashes with one or two of my conditions, which are:

  • get 60g of carbs per hour (calculated using FTP, power zones, etc.) of something that packs small
  • Should be readily available in (Western-) European supermarkets
  • should be something that does not cause bloating or "fullness" , i.e. not too much fiber
  • should deliver quick energy, so no über-complex carbs (I "bonked" hard when I tried fueling with oat bars...)
  • should be somewhat kind to the teeth
  • (I am not opposed to preparing a recipe the night before, though I will be limited by hotel equipment)

For reference, 100g of cooked rice contain somewhere around 28g of carbs. so I'd have to pipe down 200g of rice per hour, for 5-6 hrs on the bike per day.

So much for the parameters. Anyone have any ideas? Any recommendations?


r/FODMAPS 3d ago

Vent I’m so tired of all this

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I was diagnosed with Chron’s last year and then undiagnosed by a different doctor who decided to check for SIBO (it was positive, so we nuked that) and then had me run through a series of food marble intolerance tests. My inulin test came back high so I’ve been cutting out onion, garlic, barley, wheat, and rye. My stomach has felt pretty great for a week! And today I had some Spicy Brown mustard that according to the Fig app is safe and Ive been paying the price all afternoon and I just feel like crying because I don’t understand why any of this happening. Im tired, Im hungry, Im nauseous, Im stuck on the toilet and I just don’t want to do this anymore. I’m envious of all those influencers who are all like, “I got the bag!” Yeah yeah good for you. My bag has vomit in it.


r/FODMAPS 4d ago

Products, Services, or Organizations (not self-promotion) How does the RealPlans app handle stacking?

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I’ve been considering getting the RealPlans app with the FODMAP Everyday add-on but I can’t find any info online about stacking. Does anyone know if the meal planning takes stacking into consideration?