Monash University FODMAP diet

Monash University Low FODMAP diet team

About this app

Researchers at Monash University have developed a diet and corresponding app to assist in management of the gastrointestinal symptoms associated with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). The Monash University Low FODMAP diet works by restricting foods high in some carbohydrates called FODMAPs.

The app comes directly from the research team at Monash and includes the following:

- General information about the FODMAP diet and IBS.
- Easy to understand tutorials to guide you through the app and the 3-Step FODMAP diet.
- A Food Guide detailing the FODMAP content for hundreds of foods using a simple 'traffic light system'.
- A list of branded products that have been certified by Monash as low FODMAP.
- A collection of over 70 nutritious, low FODMAP recipes.
- Functions that allow you to create your own shopping list and add notes to individual foods
- A Diary that enables you to record food eaten, IBS symptoms, bowel habits and stress levels. The Diary will also guide you through step 2 of the diet - FODMAP reintroduction.
- The ability to adjust units of measurement (metric or imperial) and activate colour blindness assistance.

Ratings and reviews

Food list is way less complete than I hoped, doesn't include many cooked veggies or common foods like soymilk. Also includes a ton of ads: for "certified" branded foods, a $80 (!!) video course, a survey that leads to yet more ads (eg, for a commercial AI). Not what I was hoping from a paid "medical" app.

The searching is extremely inconsistent, and Monash gives you essentially zero actual usable information - nowhere in the app does it actually show the amount of any types of fodmaps in foods (even though they already did the lab testing and have the data), it just uses a ridiculous green/yellow/red system (with inconsistent portion sizes). Following a low fodmap diet is already hard enough, I really hope at some point in the future Monash stops being so anti-consumer. What a waste of $9.

Very disappointed in this app, especially for the price. The database is so, SO incredibly small, many generic foods are assigned to random regions which makes filtering by country pointless, and the recipes section is barely several pages long. Searching for safe foods via internet is 100x more informative than using this thing. I tried getting a refund since it didn't meet my expectations (and there was no way to preview the app before paying), but my request was denied. Buy at your own risk.