FODMAPs Flashcards
If all else fails, _ can help improve IBS symptoms
Low-FODMAP diet
FODMAPs are a group of carbs that
Small intestine can’t digest
When we eat FODMAPs, they pass to large intestine where they are
Fermented by gut bacteria
FODMAP foods (aap)
Apples
Avocados
Pears
FODMAP foods (mcs)
Mangoes
Cauliflower
Soybean
FODMAP foods (rbp)
Rye
Beans
Pulses
_ covers foods that can be fermented and used as food for gut bacteria
Fermentable
Oligosaccharides are a type of carb that usually contains _ simple sugar molecules (range)
3-10
Type of oligosaccharide (F)
Fructan
Fructans found in onion and garlic and also (3)
Wheat
Rye
Barley
Another oligosaccharide
Galacto-oligosaccharide
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) found in (2)
Beans
Lentils
Polyols are also known as
Sugar alcohols
Polyols are (2)
Sorbitol
Mannitol
Polyols found in (3)
Sugar-free sweets
Mint
Gum
Polyols found in certain (2)
Fruits
Veggies
Cause of FODMAP symptoms hypothesis 1
Small bowel hypothesis
Small bowel hypothesis states that FODMAPs are
Osmotically active molecules
Osmotically active molecules trigger _ through a selectively permeable membrane
Diffusion of water from high to low concentration
Diffusion of water from high to low concentration causes
Increase in water in small intestine
I crease of water in small intestine symptoms (3)
Distensión
Bloating
Discomfort
Second FODMAP symptom cause hypothesis
Large bowel hypothesis
Large bowel hypothesis suggests that FODMAPs increase _ as well as _
Colonic bacterial fermentation
Gas production
Large bowel hypothesis also suggests that _ May play a role
Psychological factors and an altered gut-brain axis caused by stress