Cauliflower
Rating: depends on portion · Trigger subgroup: Mannitol
At a 6 g portion: green light
Lights per subgroup
- Fructans 0.01 g · green light
- GOS 0.01 g · green light
- Excess fructose 0 g · green light
- Lactose 0 g · green light
- Sorbitol 0 g · green light
- Mannitol 0.18 g · green light
fructans and GOS are evaluated together (oligosaccharide sum) · sorbitol and mannitol are evaluated individually and combined — the worse result wins
Green boundaries come from the scientific sources; the amber (1–2× the cutoff) and red (>2×) bands are an app estimate.
Sources and confidence
- Method:
- subgroup grams from peer-reviewed literature
- Rating confidence:
- high
- Assessed:
- 2026-08-23
- Portion thresholds:
- varney-2017.v1
Sources
- doi:10.1021/jf802700e — Muir 2009 Table 1 cauliflower row, read via Semantic Scholar table reproduction: mannitol 2.96 g/100g fw — the panel maximum per the abstract 'mannitol ... (0.09–2.96 g/100 g of fw)' — sorbitol nd; Yao 2014 published-data column 2.6 — convergent. RESOLVES the mannitol gap that held this food
- doi:10.3389/fnut.2024.1446771 — cauliflower fructan 0.09 g/100g fresh
- USDA FDC 169986 — fructose 0.97 ≈ glucose 0.94
- gos 0.1 = ESTIMATE (confidence low) — Brassica raffinose plausible (Muir 2009: GOS in 7 of 45 vegetables, 0.08–0.68), no open cauliflower GOS cell; pending dietitian review; does not touch the mannitol-driven light
- doi:10.1111/jgh.13687 — published mannitol re-challenge food: ½ cup cauliflower
Hollow circle = no data (unknown). Hatched = medium/low confidence. Solid = high confidence.
Test your tolerance in the protocol
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