On 4/10/25 I had:
3 scrambled eggs with some green pepper cut and mixed in is Monash FODMAP green for the eggs, it was less than a cup for the pepper and 1 cup of green pepper is MFg (Monash FODMAP green). If you have 3.3 cups then the pepper is MFy (Monash FODMAP yellow).

A cup of cranberry juice mixed with seltzer and a little sugar. White sugar is actually MFg. Obviously seltzer would be MFg. 1 oz of 100% cranberry juice is MFg but half a glass is MFy and about 3/4 glass is MFr (Monash FODMAP red). The juice can be high in Fructans. Recipe: 1 small bottle of 100% cranberry juice (4 cups) is mixed with 6 cups water and 1 cup sugar and then when ready to drink half a can of seltzer water has the juice mixture added to make a type of homemade cranberry soda.

2 bananas A medium banana is MFg but as soon as it becomes large it is MFy because of the Fructans. A very large banana is MFr. Therefore you can only have one medium, not too ripe, banana at a time to be FODMAP compliant.

I also had ground sausage (Jimmy Dean’s), white rice, and collard greens … they were fried separate and then together. I am not sure about sausage additives but sausage itself is low FODMAP. White rice and collard greens are both MFg. The sausage was what everything was fried in. Some water was added while cooking.

I also drank some home made bone broth during the day and that is MFg.

Were these foods Specific Carbohydrate Diet compliant? NO

For example, the white rice, which I had a lot of, is not SCD compliant. “Most of the carbohydrate in rice is starch.” The problem and the benefit of rice is that “It goes through your stomach and small intestine undigested, eventually reaching your colon where it feeds your friendly gut bacteria” In BTVC (the book “Breaking The Vicious Cycle”) Elaine Gottschall mentioned Dr. Samuel Gee from the early 1900’s and said “milk was the least suitable food during intestinal problems and that highly starchy food (rice, corn, potatoes, grains) were unfit.” You can see she says in Ch 10 on page 72 that rice is “NOT PERMITTED.” On pg 71 you can see that eggs are “ALLOWABLE PROTEINS.” On pg 72 “peppers (green, yellow, and red)” are listed as ok. The sugar in the cranberry juice is not allowed by the SCD. “Chemically speaking, table sugar is sucrose, a disaccharide made of two bonded monosaccharides: glucose and fructose.” Gottschall explains around pp24-5 that the disaccaridases are easily damaged but that that “It is difficult to prove the absence of dissacaridase activity by present medical techniques.”(the books current printing is from 2020) Mayo clinic claims they can test for a disacchiradase deficiency. Sucrose can become a FODMAP:
What point I think Gottschall was making is that one may not be deficient in dissacaridase and yet one might still have issues in it’s activity.
Bananas are treated differently. While Monash has firm bananas as MFg, the same amount of ripe bananas are MFr. The basic idea is that as a banana ripens it’s starch turns to sugar. In an unripe banana starch is 80-90% of the carbohydrate content. Hence, a ripe banana is easier to digest and “when a banana is almost or fully all brown, basically all the starch has broken down into sugar” The sugars in a yellow with brown spots banana, according to Brave AI, are “sucrose, glucose, and fructose” We saw earlier that sucrose is no good. However, the glucose and fructose were monosaccarides which ARE OK for the SCD. “the predominant sugars at any ripeness stage were glucose and fructose (in approximately equal amount at all ripeness levels) at, on average 12–13 g/100g total in slightly ripe to overripe and 3.2 g/100g in unripe bananas. Sucrose increased only nominally going from unripe (~1 g/100g) to ripe (4.6 g/100g), with only a 1–2 g/100g difference between slightly ripe/ripe and ripe/overripe”
The bone broth is mostly protein with little carbs or fats and is therefore allowed by both the SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet) and MFD (Monash FODMAP Diet)
The fact that greener bananas are milder for me points me slightly to the MFD over the SCD right now.
If you are curious if I am medically diagnosed, Dr Allan Fernandez told me my problems with foods probably are due to getting older and did not suggest anything other than standard labs and a follow up appointment which I will have in a few weeks. Today I am intermittent fasting … water only, for roughly 23 hours. Fasting is both SCD and MFD compliant if you think about. Thank you for reading 🙂