Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Orange Juice, Spaghetti Sauce, Oatmeal

Hi. Welcome to the Boards. It sounds like you've ended up in the Bulletin Boards without realizing Heather has a whole eating plan that these Boards provide support for. Here's an old post I did that will send you to the background reading. I think you'll find it quite enlightening: your daily cup of white rice is precisely the sort of Soluble Fiber Heather recommends so highly.

As for your specific questions:

Orange juice: Fruit juices deliver a lot of fructose very quickly so they are far more problematic for IBSers than fruit itself (see this). Some IBSers, especially when they first start on Heather's plan, need to be careful about acidity also.

Spaghetti sauce: It depends on how you make it. Red meat and high fat are IBS triggers. If you watch the fat content and make it meatless or with ground turkey or chicken and serve it with lotsa pasta, you can probably tolerate it. Again, however, the acidity may be a problem for you.

Oatmeal: This is one of Heather's Soluble Fiber foods but it's actually half Soluble Fiber and half easily digested Insoluble Fiber. Some IBSers tolerate it well, some IBSers can't tolerate it at all.

Chocolate chip cookies: IBS disaster. Whether store-bought or home-made from a standard recipe, these are high-fat and contain dairy and egg yolks. Luckily there's a perfectly yummy IBS-safe recipe on the Recipe Board.

HTH.

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