GutWise

Grains and starches

Are Polenta and cornmeal Low FODMAP?

Low FODMAP

Safe at the serving size listed.

Safe serving

Unrestricted

Why

Milled corn with no FODMAP ceiling. One of the more underused options during elimination — it works as a porridge, a set slab for chips, or the base of a cake.

Recipes using polenta and cornmeal

Thick golden batons of baked polenta scattered with rosemary and grated parmesan on a baking tray
45 minServes 6

Crisp Rosemary Polenta Chips

Crisp outside, soft in the middle, and safe in a category where almost nothing else is. The waiting is all unattended.

  • Elimination
  • Reintroduction
  • Maintenance
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

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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