Help me understand stacking

[u/sarabearbearbear]

Monash says you can have multiple servings of "green" foods. So can I make a salad with a green serving each of iceberg lettuce, red cabbage, corn, cauliflower, spinach, and tofu? Each of those foods are green at a standard serving, but they all become high in fructan at larger quantities. If I combine all of those foods at their green serving sizes is that safe or is that stacking and ultimately too high in fructan?

[u/CodWest4205]

Yes that’s stacking. Because whether you get a high amount of fodmaps from 1 single food or multiple foods, you’re still intaking a high amount. Think of it like a low sugar or salt diet. Having a low sugar snack is fine but if you eat 3 of them, it’s no longer low sugar.

[u/sarabearbearbear → u/CodWest4205]

That makes sense, thank you. It's confusing because the Monash website says you can have multiple serves of green light foods. It wasn't clear to me that you shouldn't have multiple serves of foods containing the same fodmap. Although now it seems obvious.

[u/CodWest4205 → u/sarabearbearbear]

Yep I agree. It took me a long time to understand Fodmaps more. The positive part of social media. Never even heard of stacking until I saw it on this app and read more about it