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.
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.
Spoonful far better, and free. Wasted money...
Good app, wish there were more recipes to choose from. Also, I wish there was a way you could scan barcodes, and it tells you if it is low fodmap or not.
Overall okay app, makes the process of this god awful diet easier. My suggestion would be that the app adds more recipes and also add the recipes that are on your website e.g why is the carrot Cake porridge not on the app?
I've been waiting for this app to improve for so long, and it just gets worse. All the branded products are a pain to have to search around and only increase in number, I would love it if I could just filter out all of them. Filtering out anything rated red would be great too. I try to use the app and get on top of things, but I always get over it and eat poorly again. A diet tracker that recorded reactions and reported back with insights would be so helpful... Surely not that hard to program...
it has lots of food and portions but the search is useless, the database is too limited, recipes are boring.
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