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Ah - yes. They call it dietary fructose intolerance. I was looking for malabsorption. The diet is very comprehensive. I like the layout on this page you linked to.

I am bit surprised to see brown sugar on the list. These days brown sugar is usually made by adding a small amount of molasses to white sugar. However, molasses does have a very tiny amount more fructose than glucose. I think about 0.6 grams / 100 grams.

I am bit confused why the diet restricts certain herbs such dill, coriander and ginger. On the other hand it does not restrict such things as wheat and Jerusalem artichokes which are high in fructans (long chains of fructose molecules). It appears that the Iowa diet has a slightly different focus than the Australian diet.

Overall, it looks very comprehensive. I like the fact that they give the range range of excess fructose per serving for some foods. It would be easy to apply the EFI principles to this diet and produce a fairly comprehensive EFI diet for IBSers with fructose problems. I will give it a try and see what I come up.

Thanks for passing on this information.

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