I’ve always been one with a sensitive stomach but never researched foods because my lifestyle is busy and I don’t have time to be picky. My doctor recommended a low-FODMAP diet a while back but I decided it would be easier to eat what makes me happy and deal with the consequences. I started looking on Reddit for others with similar issues and this app was recommended. I’m so grateful I found it!! Makes it super easy to do a quick search to plan out meals and avoid certain purchases at the grocery store. Would highly recommend!! It’s missing a few items but it covers all the basics and you can understand from context of other items if what you’re searching for is safe to consume or not.

As the title asks, why is this app rated so highly? It has such a limited list of foods, and the search bar doesn’t seem to work for things that you think would have already been studied (papaya?? GALL versions of squash, not just butternut and spaghetti?? Rice milk is ok but is that the old-fashioned rice milk, or the current rice milk that is currently processed like modern oat milk is (enzymatically processed)? It should be listed as its name, and as a subcategory of squash. Super annoying to just have to pull up the lists I think it’s listed in and scroll around until I find it). It also doesn’t include sugar alcohols and herbal/extracted sweeteners that are popular and/or becoming popular with the ketogenic diet (as well as Candida protocol, which has some overlap with the low-FODMAP and keto diet). What is nice is it gives you amounts that are safe or what you should limit it to, which I think is helpful. And when you click on the ones high in FODMAPs, it specifies which kind of FODMAP it’s high in. But outside of that, the app could use some updating on the food listing and some work to be more user-friendly.

I have been using this app for a few weeks and overall find it generally pretty quick and helpful in everyday lifestyle things like shopping and looking up recipe ingredients for cooking at home. In a few weeks I will be starting my reintroduction phase and I can’t seem to find a way to search or sort by the FODMAP groups. It would be great to have that feature for example if I started to reintroduce the “F- fermentable” group for a week or maybe the “O- oligosaccahrides”, it would be so helpful to know all the foods that fall in that category because it may not be so intuitive as say generally knowing that onions, apples, broccoli, watermelon, certain cheeses and breads etc are high fodmaps (if I don’t know which FODMAP group they fall into). So maybe in an updated version there could be both the red, green, yellow color and then next to it also the acronym letters for FODMAP and a filter feature for people who are in elimination and re-introduction phases, or simply trying to figure out which groups cause them problems. Thank you.

It’s really frustrating to try to find Low FODMAP foods when they’re surrounded by all the foods I CANT HAVE (e.g. Medium and High FODMAP foods). While it’s nice to know what are and aren’t Low FODMAP foods, I also just need a filter that shows me only Low FODMAP foods. I want the full list of Low FODMAP foods in alphabetical order so that I can create a shopping list based on the ingredients I’m already familiar with. In other words, I’ve seen a lot of Ingredients on these Low FODMAP lists that are foods I’ve either never heard of or have no idea where (if at all) I could purchase them. And yes, I have seen that this app has a Low FODMAP food delivery service. However, I don’t have a ton of money right now to go blowing it on an expensive 3-meals-per-day delivery service. Long story short, it’s very discouraging to open this app and see that the overwhelming majority of foods I’m familiar with are foods I can’t have. That’s like trying to create a shopping list by almost solely listing off the things you CAN’T have. “Alright, Honey, what’s the list like today?”“Well, Daryl, we can’t have ice cream or dairy. We also can’t have raspberries or wheat. Oh and no honey, ‘Honey’! Did you see what I did there?”“I saw,” Daryl chuckled. “What else can’t we have?”“Pretty much every fruit known to mankind,” Lisa droned on, “except some hyper specific ones, but it’s almost impossible to find those on the app or in reality.” “Oh look!” Lisa points to her phone’s screen, “Something we CAN have: brown rice!”“Brown rice upsets my stomach, remember?” Daryl said.