vinaigrette
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Vinaigrette is the better dressing, not a clean one, and it is worth being precise about the difference. It earns its reputation on the columns creamy dressings fail: it grades A for dairy protein, lactose, gluten and nightshades, where ranch and french style dressings sit at C or worse for nightshade, free glutamate and histamine. What it does not escape is its own two ingredients. Fructans grade C because garlic and onion, usually as powder, are in nearly every bottled vinaigrette and most restaurant house dressings, and sulfites grade C because wine vinegars start life as sulfited wine and often get more added as a preservative. Histamine sits at a borderline B, since vinegar is a fermented product. The fix is not to avoid vinaigrette, it is to make it yourself.
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Fructans C. Garlic and onion powder are the default flavour base of commercial vinaigrettes, which is what pushes total FODMAPs to a C on an otherwise simple dressing. Read the label rather than assuming oil and vinegar / Sulfites C. Wine vinegars carry sulfites from the wine plus whatever is added as a preservative, so vinaigrette is a quiet contributor for anyone tracking sulfite reactions such as wheeze or flushing / Vinegar is fermented, so histamine grades a borderline B. Aged vinegars are far worse than that: balsamic grades E for both histamine and sulfites, and red wine vinegar grades E for histamine and D for tyramine. Which vinegar you choose changes the dressing more than anything else does / Italian and balsamic style bottles routinely add sugar, thickeners, cheese or anchovy, none of which appear in the name. That is where a supposedly clean dressing picks up dairy protein and glutamate / A homemade version with a tolerated oil, a mild vinegar or a citrus you get on with, salt and no alliums drops nearly all of this. The dressing is only as complicated as you make it
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What does the FODMAP rating mean for vinaigrette?
Medium FODMAP: portion size matters more than the ingredient itself.
Is vinaigrette generally well tolerated?
FODMAPs (Moderate) and Fructans (Moderate) Start with those if you react.
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