It all seems a bit confusing right?  Learning about FODMAPs, what they stand for, what they potentially do to our digestive system, which foods you can have, need to limit or completely avoid.  There’s also conflicting information from Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.  At the end of the day, it’s your body and you need to take control and carefully monitor what works and

FODMAPs is an acronym used to describe short-chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed in the small intestine by some people with sensitive guts, namely those with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). When certain food components in carbohydrates (like sugars and fibers in FODMAPs) are not absorbed in the small intestine, they make their way into the large intestine where the gut bacteria act upon them and have a

Who Developed Low Fodmap Diet? The low FODMAPs diet was developed by Dr Sue Shepherd and Dr Peter Gibson at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and has been scientifically proven to relieve symptoms of IBS and IBD. What does FODMAP Stand For? To break it down, FODMAP is an abbreviation for: Fermentable Oligosaccharides Disaccharides Monosaccharides And Polyols How do Fodmap work? …In plain English; they