Cooking for the Sensitive Gut: Delicious, soothing, healthy recipes for every day

by Joan Ransley, Nick Read

About one in five of the population are intolerant to the food that they eat.  Cooking for the Sensitive Gut  is the perfect guide to how you can restrict the ingredients that cause you problems and still prepare a whole range of recipes that are simple and fun to cook and delicious to eat. About one in five of the population are intolerant to the food that they eat. Most have sensitivities to a range of different foods making preparing food a nightmare and sitting down to a meal can be torture. What can they eat without getting ill or running the risk of nutritional deficiency? What can they cook for their family and friends? Cooking for the Sensitive Gut is the perfect guide to how you can restrict the ingredients that cause you problems and still prepare a whole range of recipes that are simple and fun to cook and delicious to eat. From fresh and healthy breakfast ideas, to wholesome mains such as Butternut Squash and Coconut Laksa, cooking for the sensitive gut has never been so easy. Straightforward and authoritative advice from a gastroenterologist and nutritionist means it's never been so easy to learn how to treat your tummy well.

Genres: Cookbooks, Health

176 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2016

Reviews

[AllBookedUp · Rating 3 out of 5]

When reading the title, I really thought it was going to be a bit different. I knew they were including recipes but it’s the ingredients that surprised me. Sensitive gut is a trendy book but the recipes, to be honest, aren't great for those with a sensitive gut. Recipes that use sesame oil, beanscapers (sour acidic), seeds that include sunflower (phytic acid), pumpkin (inflammation), eggs that are very runny in their shakshuka recipe.

Is this a bad book? No, but you really need to know what works for you and what causes inflammation within your body. I would recommend this for someone to have done their dietary research with a gastroenterologist to best determine the causes of inflammation in your digestive system.

The recipes are beautifully photographed and it’s good for the average person but if it’s for the sensitive gut, I urge you to review before you use those ingredients from the recipes.

[Christine D · Rating 1 out of 5]

The introduction with the information on how the stomach/gut works was interesting BUT the recipes did not make sense. This book is saying that tomatoes, red peppers and lemon and limes are good to eat but avacados, mangoes and peas are agitators? As someone with IBS and a sensitive gut, I find the exact opposite is true. Once I got to the part of the foods they recommend, I was a little leery of the rest of the book.
So, overall, it started off making sense but as I read on, less so.

[Pauline Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Answer for Food Intollerances

I feel this book follows the Monash University Fodmap diet recommended for people like me who have food intollerences. It gives the tools that I need to understand what causes IBS and how to treat it and eat as normal a diet as possible.It is healthy and healing and better than the diet which has been responsible for my health problem in the first place.I recommend this book to anyone who suffers from food intollerences.

[Sandy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great cookbook featuring onion free recipes. No onions, yes I know, bummer.