Hello and welcome to Zoe Shorts, the bite-sized podcast where we discuss one topic around science and nutrition.

I'm Jonathan Wolf and today I'm joined by Dr. Will Balswich.

And today's subject is FODMAP diets.

Jonathan, we're advised to follow all sorts of diets going dairy-free, free, avoiding fructose from fruit or cutting out whole

grains or legumes. But most people don't realize is these are all variations of low FODMAP

diets. So, what I want to know is, does Fodmap even mean? It sounds super geeky.

Well Fodmap Jonathan is an acronym and I'll tell you what it stands for in a second.

And we'll learn why FOD Maps are incredibly important for digestive health.

Okay, let's dig into all of this then and try to map out our way to FOD maps for our listeners.

So, Will, you mentioned that FODMAP is an acronym and that tells me that there are probably a few members of this FOD Map gang.

So you can tell me who's in the gang, when do they first get together,

is the gang still together and can I join?

You make it sound so cool Jonathan.

I don't want to disappoint you, but unfortunately I don't think you can join

because it's a rather exclusive club and also you're not a

carbohydrate. I get told often that I can't join because it's an exclusive club

not so often that it's because I'm not a carbohydrate. I have quite a lot of

carbohydrate in me that's not enough you know sadly Jonathan

you and I neither of us would be able to join this club and I don't think any of our

listeners would either because none of us are actually exclusively carbohydrates but you know nonetheless the members of this

exclusive gang are I just want to prepare everyone because I'm about to use some

insanely large words here fermentableable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides, and

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