United StatesResearchers at Monash University have developed a diet and corresponding app to assist in management of the gastrointestinal symptoms associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The Monash University Low FODMAP diet works by restricting foods high in some carbohydrates called FODMAPs.
The app comes directly from the research team at Monash and includes the following:
- General information about the FODMAP diet and IBS.
- Easy to understand tutorials to guide you through the app and the 3-Step FODMAP diet.
- A Food Guide detailing the FODMAP content for hundreds of foods using a simple 'traffic light system'.
- A list of branded products that have been certified by Monash as low FODMAP.
- A collection of over 70 nutritious, low FODMAP recipes.
- Functions that allow you to create your own shopping list and add notes to individual foods
- A Diary that enables you to record food eaten, IBS symptoms, bowel habits and stress levels. The Diary will also guide you through step 2 of the diet - FODMAP reintroduction.
- The ability to adjust units of measurement (metric or imperial) and activate colour blindness assistance.
Country filter doesn't work. Still see foreign results when set to 'Australia'. An additional filter by state would be useful. Some suppliers/retailers are interstate and those results are useless. Certainly not going interstate to buy bread!
I enjoy the app but I have to google search it every time I want to open it on my Google pixel? It's really frustrating and I can't seem to be able to find the app in my list so I can save it to my home screen.
Thank you for making this app. I've been following the low fodmap diet for four days now and this app has helped tremendously. I eat a whole foods, vegan diet and everything I've looked up is in the app. It's so fast and easy to look up foods now!
I fear it's useless. The app doesn't tell how much sugars is in each food or the cutoff value. It shows an arbitrary semaphore with green/yellow/red lights with unrealistic portion sizes (like 20g of an apple). Also it is a paid app with ads (certified foods). Those aren't available where I live and I have no interest in buying super expensive food
Hmmm, needs a lot more functionality, we need the abilty to scan a food barcode and be advised it it's ok or not, it needs the ability to store a shopping list of foods we find, it defaulted me to the USA not UK, barely any UK foods, who the hell is schar? It's no better than the free fact sheet I go off my doctor I am afraid, where are the major brands, Heinz etc? Where are all the major supermarkets? The main problem we have is finding food, this does not address that at all. it wont get used
Too many ads make this unusable. I can't believe this app is recommended by so many online. All the suggested ingredients and suggested foods are advertisements for either monash or their affiliates. It is time-consuming to scroll past these ads, and it makes their recipes useless.
Portion sizes are confusing. Eg avocado low fodmaps portion is 60g but high is 93g, even though only 50% more. Yet green bell pepper medium and high portions are both about 300% more than low. At best it's not very helpful, at worst I question the science. Shouldn't there be a constant ratio between low, medium and high portions? It would be very helpful if you could sort foods by maximum low fodmap portion, so you can easily see what you can eat a lot of.
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