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Nutritional Therapy Support for Patients with Crohn's Disease or Ulcerative Colitis

Overview Table

Illustrates the similarities among most therapeutic diets regard to foods allowed and foods restricted and shows the areas where there is no strong consensus.

Posted: Feb. 14, 2021 Updated: Sept. 24, 2022 Posted by Admin

OVERVIEW OF GENERALIZED SIMILARITIES (Some diets may be outliers in some categories):
Food Type	General Consensus	Details
Seafood/Poultry/Red Meat	Included	Allowed on all the therapeutic diets. CDED does not recommend red meat, restricts the amounts of red meat and seafood, and limits poultry to chicken excluding skin, wings, and organ meat. IBD-AID suggests limiting saturated fats.
Vegetables (nonstarchy)	Included	Allowed on all therapeutic diets. AIP excludes nightshades. CDED excludes a few specific vegetables.
Fruits	Included	Allowed on all therapeutic diets. CDED excludes a few specific fruits.
Honey	Included	Allowed on all diets. Limited to 3 TBSP per day on CDED.
Fresh Legumes	Mostly Included	Allowed on all diets except AIP.
Eggs	Mostly Included	Allowed on all diets except AIP.
Coffee	Mostly Included	Allowed on all diets except AIP and the Induction Phase of CDED.
Dried Legumes	Mixed	SCD and mSCD allow specific dried legumes (soaking required). IBD-AID allows dried legumes. AIP excludes them. CDED limits the quantity.
Vegetables (starchy)	Mixed	CDED allows starchy vegetables, SCD excludes starchy vegetables, other diets restrict certain starchy vegetables.
Nuts	Mixed	SCD, mSCD, and IBD-AID allow nuts (nut butters may be easier to digest in early stages/phases). CDED allows a limited amount of walnuts or almonds per day. AIP excludes nuts.
Seeds	Mixed	IBD-AID allows seeds (may need to be pureed in phase I/II). SCD and mSCD do not allow flax or chia. Seeds are not allowed in AIP or CDED.
Cocoa	Mixed	Cocoa (honey sweetened if sweetened) is allowed on mSCD and IBD-AID and the Maintenance Phase of CDED. It is excluded from SCD and AIP.
Grains	Restricted	Wheat/gluten is excluded in all diets except CDED, which allows limited amounts of whole grain bread or pasta per day. Corn is excluded in all diets except CDED, which allows after week 10. Oats and Rice are mixed (mSCD, IBD-AID, and CDED allow oats; mSCD and CDED allow rice). CDED allows Quinoa. IBD-AID allows Barley if not celiac. Other grains are not allowed.
Dairy	Restricted	AIP and CDED Induction Phase exclude all dairy. CDED Maintenance Phase allows a limited amount of yogurt per week. SCD and mSCD allows aged cheese and 24-hour fermented yogurt. IBD-AID allows yogurt, kefir, aged cheese.
Sweeteners other than honey and artificial sweeteners	Restricted	mSCD allows maple syrup. AIP allows date sugar, maple syrup, molasses, evaporated cane juice, and coconut sugar. CDED allows a very small amount of refined sugar.
Oils	Restricted	SCD and mSCD exclude soybean oil. IBD-AID limits oils high in saturated fats. CDED allows only olive oil and canola oil. AIP does not allow seed oils or processed vegetable oils.
Alcohol	Restricted	SCD, mSCD, and IBD-AID allow some forms of alcohol, as does CDED on weekends in its Maintenance Phase.
Processed Meat	Excluded	All diets exclude processed meats.
Artificial Sweeteners	Excluded	All diets exclude artificial sweeteners.
Processed Foods/Additives/Preservatives	Excluded	All diets exclude processed foods/additives/preservatives.