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Are Lemon and lime Low FODMAP?

Low FODMAP

Safe at the serving size listed.

Safe serving

Unrestricted at culinary quantities

Why

Both are low FODMAP at any amount you would realistically use. Acid is one of the most valuable tools available once garlic and onion are gone, because it does some of the same work of making food taste finished.

Recipes using lemon and lime

A golden polenta cake in a springform tin, soaked in lemon syrup and topped with thin curls of lemon zest
1 hr 5 minServes 12

Lemon and Almond Polenta Cake

The cake to bring when you are the one with the diet and would rather not explain it. Nobody can tell it is missing anything.

  • Elimination
  • Reintroduction
  • Maintenance
Golden roasted chicken thighs and crisp potato wedges on a sheet pan, scattered with rosemary and lemon slices
45 minServes 4

Lemon Herb Chicken with Roasted Potatoes

The dinner we recommend to everyone in week one. One pan, six ingredients, no allium, and it tastes like a normal roast rather than a restricted one.

  • Elimination
  • Reintroduction
  • Maintenance

This entry is compiled from published Monash-aligned guidance rather than our own laboratory testing, and thresholds are revised as new data arrives. For the elimination phase the Monash app is the authority. See the full food list for how the categories fit together, orcheck another food.

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