Reged: 06/01/04
Posts: 7013
Loc: Maine (IBS-A stable since July '05!)
There are certain IF foods that if I take them OUT of my diet, my poops get difficult (straining, hard, small). None of them are miracle foods in that they'll MAKE me have a BM, but if I stop eating ALL of them on a regular basis (at least two of these a day), I'm obviously not getting enough IF and I start to have problems.
Those foods are:
Corn Legumes - lentils, beans, etc. Grapes Apple with the skin on, which is a new one for me
I still think that if you're looking for a food or 2 that will make you "go", you're approaching it all wrong. Aim to get more IF overall, ALL the time, every single day. And I still think you should make it IF from fruit/veg sources, which seem to me to have more water to them than grain sources. But that's just me.