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

by Dr Joan Ransley, Nick Read

If you’re among the one in five people with food intolerances, this guide to the sensitive gut will help you cook smarter, feel better, and still eat deliciously.  
 
When you suffer from food sensitivities, preparing meals can turn into a nightmare. You wonder: What can I eat without getting ill, or running the risk of nutritional deficiency? What can I serve my family and friends that we’ll all enjoy? Written by a gastroenterologist and a nutritionist, Cooking for the Sensitive Gut supplies the answers, explaining how to restrict any problem-causing ingredients while still making dishes that are simple, fun, and flavorful. The 100+ recipes range from fresh and healthy Shakshuka to Granola Pots, Prawn Laksa, and Rhubarb & Strawberry Crumble. Cooking for the sensitive gut has never been so easy!

Genres: Cookbooks, Health

176 pages, Paperback

Published January 3, 2019

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.