Is Rice cake (caramel or sweet-coated) Low FODMAP?

Serving thresholds

Thresholds are per sitting. FODMAP load stacks across a meal — two “low” servings of different foods can still add up.

Which FODMAPs are in rice cake (caramel or sweet-coated)?

During reintroduction, test the group above one at a time — tolerating rice cake (caramel or sweet-coated) depends on your personal threshold for Fructose, not on the food itself.

Good to know

Sweet-coated rice cakes (caramel, honey, chocolate, syrup glaze) keep the low-FODMAP rice base but the topping does the damage: caramel and chocolate coatings add free fructose at well above the per-serve cutoff, and honey-glazed variants stack fructose with fructans. Two cakes already cross the line.

Where these numbers come from

• Derivation note: Caramel/honey/chocolate coatings on rice cakes deliver excess free fructose and (with honey) added fructans; both groups exceed Varney 2017 cutoffs at typical 2-cake serves.
• Peer-reviewed paper: Varney J et al. (2017) FODMAPs: food composition, defining cutoff values and international application. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 32(S1):53–61.

Phase derives serving thresholds from published research and food-composition data so every number is auditable.

Low-FODMAP swaps for rice cake (caramel or sweet-coated)

Craving rice cake (caramel or sweet-coated) during elimination? These low-FODMAP picks from the same food group let you keep the dish without the trigger.