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Re: New here...Help me break the cycle please! (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:44:02 -0700

Are you taking any supplements?

Breaking the cycle diet is not quite so restrictive as rice and chicken/tuna. It suggests "So stick to foods like plain white rice, plain instant oatmeal, cream of rice cereal, dry corn or oat or rice cereals, pasta, white breads or toast, peeled potatoes, etc. Boring, I know, but it's just a few days. Make sure you've added in a soluble fiber supplement."

You said you were constipated before starting the break the cycle diet. By constipated do you mean you have 2 or fewer bowel movements per week?

Re: New here...Help me break the cycle please! (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:22:01 -0700

Thanks for responding. Yes, I eat rice with a little protein for 4-5 small meals. How many more days should I go on eating like this?

-Mich

Re: New here...Help me break the cycle please! (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:14:01 -0700

Welcome to the board

Have you been eating tuna, chicken and rice for all three meals? Some low fat protein like chicken and tuna should be fine.

Re: tomato/passata/puree/ketchup. (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 07:02:44 -0700

I fixed the link. I hope it works now.

I do the same thing with my berries. The juicer has a very fine sieve that removes the pulp etc.

Re: tomato/passata/puree/ketchup. (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:57:20 -0700

Same-I can eat berries only if I puree them and pass the pulp through a fine sieve or in seedless jam/jelly.

Thanks for the reference articles and links. It may just be my computer but the first link, to the fiber content in common portions, seems to be broken.

Hope you're well.

Re: tomato/passata/puree/ketchup. (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:29:24 -0700

Yes - raspberries is one of the fruits I recall she was too cautious about. I too cannot eat whole fresh raspberries because of the fiber. However, I juice mixed berries which includes raspberries and I use 3 tablespoons on my oatmeal

Harvard University dietary services has a useful document that gives Fiber Content of Foods in Common Portions that you may find useful. I believe it is reasonably accurate. As for fructans in food Gibson, Shepherd and some of their colleagues published two papers which give fructan and fructose content of various Australian foods. I use them from time to time as guidelines. The references are below. The second link is to the full pdf paper. Unfortunately the first one just has a link to the abstract. I can email you the document if you give me an email address to send it to. The second one has a link to the actual document.

Muir, J. G., Rose, R., Rosella, O., Liels, K., Barrett, J. S., Shepherd, S. J., & Gibson, P. R. (2009). Measurement of Short-Chain Carbohydrates in Common Australian Vegetables and Fruits by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC). . Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 57(2), 554-565.

Muir, J. G., Shepherd, S. J., Rosella, O., Rose, R., Barrett, J. S., & Gibson, P. R. (2007). Fructan and Free Fructose Content of Common Australian Vegetables and Fruit J. Agric. Food Chem., 55(16), 6619-6627.

Re: tomato/passata/puree/ketchup. (Eating for IBS Diet Discussion Board)

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:25:56 -0700

Yes, thanks I was aware of the advice on fructose in that paper. I think raspberrys would (just) fall into the 'too cautious' category as they have 0.49 grams excess. How do you do with raspberrys from a fructose perspective? I have trouble with the IF in them.

I had also noted, in an earlier paper by Gibson et al, the suggestion of dextrose tablets as a way to combat excess fructose-thanks for the reminder.

The USDA provides some useful data on fibre (although not SF:IF ratio) and fructose, is there a similar resource for the fructans in foods?