In the next “Foods in SIBO” list, you can find all kinds of food you can eat if you are struggling with SIBO, but you can also use this list if you have abdominal discomfort or IBS.
If you have SIBO, avoiding carbohydrates from your diet is essential. SCD, LFD, GAPS, and FODMAP diets and their variants are the most popular diets recommended to people struggling with SIBO.
All these diets are based on low carbohydrate intake because this feeds pathogens.
The only carbohydrate that bacteria do not eat much of is insoluble fiber. Below you can find most of the food consumed if you have SIBO.
“Foods in SIBO” list
If you have SIBO, you should avoid any carbohydrates. In the “Foods in SIBO” list, you can find all the food that can be consumed
Quality Protein Sources
- Bone soup
- Eggs (quail eggs only)
- Pumpkin seed
- Organic grass-fed lamb
- Organic pasture poultry (chicken, duck, turkey)
- Hydrolyzed bovine collagen
- Vegan protein: rice, hemp, pea, etc.
Healthy Fats
- Coconut, coconut oil, coconut flour, coconut + butter / semolina / milk / yogurt / cream
- Ghee (if you tolerate)
- Grape seed oil
- Olive oil
- Flaxseed oil
Alternatives for diary products
- Coconut milk, yogurt, cream
- Oat milk
- Rice milk
Bio, Non-Starch Vegetable
- Sprouts (including broccoli, radishes and sunflower sprouts)
- Artichoke
- Asparagus
- Bean sprouts
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Cucumber
- Fennel
- Onions
- Green onions
- Turnips
- Herbs (parsley, coriander, basil, rosemary, thyme, dill, lemongrass, etc.)
- Kohlrabi
- Leek
- Salad (baby salad, iceberg lettuce)
- Peppers (green, red, yellow, orange jalapeno)
- Radish
- Rhubarb
- Onions
- Swiss chard
- Watercress
- Zucchini
Delicious spices
- Anise
- Basil
- Bay leaf
- Cocoa beans
- Cayenne
- Coriander / coriander
- Cinnamon
- Clove
- Cumin
- Dill
- Ginger
- Ground black pepper
- Mint
- Nutmeg
- Oregano
- Paprika
- Parsley
- Red chili flakes
- Rosemary
- Sea salt
- Stevia
- Tarragon
- Thyme
- Curcuma
- Vanilla
Drinks
- Bone soup
- Coconut milk
- Smoothies
- Tea, herbal, decaffeinated
- Water
Gluten-Free Flour
- Arrow root starch
- Coconut flour
- Sweet potato flour
- Tapioca flour
Fruits
- Apples
- Apricots
- Blueberries
- Blackberries
- Redcurrant
- Cherry
- Cranberries
- Figs
- Goji berries
- Gooseberry
- Solo
- Kiwi
- Lychee
- Mango
- Melon
- Mulberry
- Nectarine
- Passionfruit
- Peach
- Pear
- Persimmon
- Plum
- Pomegranate
- Quince
- Raspberry
Starched vegetables after SIBO treatment
- Carrot
- Chestnut
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Parsley
- Potato
- Pumpkin
- Sweet potatoes
