What is the Food Library?

The Food Library is a feature within our FoodMarble app that provides comprehensive details about different foods. Each food has its own information card, where you can find useful data; including the FODMAP content and the percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) of FODMAPs you’ll use if you eat that food. Our extensive and growing food database includes over 13,000 foods. You can easily access it by navigating to the “Foods” section in the app.

How the Personalized Food Library Works?

To get personalized results, you first need to complete the Baseline and Reset stages of the FoodMarble Program and move into the third stage: Discovery. The Baseline stage helps you determine what’s normal for your gut health without altering your diet, and the Reset stage focuses on reducing hard-to-digest foods by following a low-FODMAP diet to prepare your gut for the next stage. During the Discovery stage, you will use our FODMAP Kit to test your response to specific FODMAPs. We call these tests “Challenges.”

Based on the results of these challenges, your own Digestive Profile will be built. Depending on how your gut reacts to different FODMAPs, the FoodMarble app will adjust your %RDA for each FODMAP, and the Food Library can then provide you with personalized dietary recommendations on whether a food is right for you or not.

Example: How My Digestive Profile Shapes My Personalized Food Library

Let’s take myself as an example!

In the Discovery Stage, I took four FODMAP challenges using the FODMAP Kit and AIRE 2 breath tester to examine my fermentation level. The kit includes four sachets of common FODMAPs:

• Fructose: found in fruits and honey
• Lactose: found in dairy products
• Sorbitol: found in various berries, stone fruits, sugar-free foods
• Inulin: found in wheat, garlic, and onion

The results of these challenges showed that I have high scores on Lactose and Sorbitol, while low scores on Fructose and Inulin. As you can see in the picture below, my Digestive Profile was built based on the challenges’ results.