Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | For abby82 - Triggers and Fat (Moderator double-check please)

Now that I've recovered from my giddiness over someone actually making - and liking - a recipe I posted (thank you, MCV), I wanted to address abby82's question about whether these are bad, partly because I should have done the fat math before I posted the recipe and partly because I, too, occasionally read a recipe on the Board and go, "But I thought we weren't supposed to eat that stuff." I'd also really appreciate it if someone with a little more experience with eating this way would check my logic and let me know if I'm thinking about this stuff correctly.

First, the Reduced Fat Crescent Rolls do NOT have any of the Heather triggers in the ingredient list: no dairy, no whole wheat, no caffeine, etc., etc.

However the undoctored rolls are too high in fat to be IBS-safe: 40% of their calories from fat. (I shudder to think what the percentage is for regular crescent rolls.) But I'm adding ingredients, so the percent of calories from fat will change. When the dust settles, the whole recipe has 1160 calories (800 from the rolls, 360 from the sugar), 320 from fat (all from the rolls). That's 28% of calories from fat which is a little higher than I'd like. Since I always eat either a 1/2 cup of applesauce or a banana before I eat anything else in the morning, the calories I add from that get the percent for breakfast as a whole into reasonable range (unless I eat all 12 of the rolls at one sitting!).

So the bottom line is that the Crescent Rolls themselves are bad because of their high fat content, but adding the extra sugar and some soluble fiber in the form of applesauce gets the fat percent of a breakfast of them into an IBS-safe range.

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