Fast FODMAP Lookup & Learn

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’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.

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.