I have always been a bit anti-smoothies. When somebody started to talk about having a smoothie for breakfast, I was always the first personal to yell that that was the most boring breakfast ever and that I didn’t understand how people could like smoothies.

I want to chew on my food, not drink it! BUT, I have to admit that I have changed my opinion a bit lately. Sometimes, low FODMAP smoothies are actually quite handy! `

To have for breakfast on days that you don’t have a lot of time or want to take your breakfast with you on the go or when you just need an extra fruit or veggie boost.

In those situations smoothies are actually quite practical. I must even admit that I have been eating (drinking!) smoothies for breakfast regularly in the last weeks. Isn’t it unbelievable!

Low FODMAP smoothies

Making low FODMAP smoothies is a quite precise job. And I don’t mean chopping everything up and throwing it in the blender, but choosing the ingredients of your smoothie.

Too large amounts of fruit can cause problems and when you are choosing your ingredients you also have to make sure that you are not FODMAP stacking.

When I am making a low FODMAP smoothie, I always make sure that I use a maximum of 150 gram of fruit and that the ingredients that I use that are limited low FODMAP don’t come from the same FODMAP groups.

Or I make sure that the amounts that I use are small enough to not go over the threshold of a certain FODMAP group.

I also did this for the low FODMAP green smoothie that I am sharing below. This smoothie contains banana, pineapple and spinach and these all contain fructans.

Because of that, I have used small amounts of these ingredients, so the smoothie wouldn’t be too high in fructans. If you are very sensitive to fructans, this still is a smoothie to be careful with.

Fruit and feeling bloated

I personally notice that I can eat more fruit, when I don’t combine it with other foods. If I eat something else next to my smoothie, such as Low FODMAP granola, some yoghurt or low FODMAP bread, I get bloated more often.

If I just eat a smoothie or fruit as a separate meal and don’t combine it with anything else, I can eat more fruit without having problems. I can then tolerate 200 or 250 gram of fruit without any problems. So, if you feel like fruit makes you bloat, that is definitely worth trying!

The same goes for eating fruit directly after lunch or dinner (or any big meal). That often causes bloating. If you wait until two hours after the meal with eating fruit, you usually won’t have any problems.

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