Many Americans have become obsessed with avoiding gluten, despite the dearth of scientific evidence proving this protein (found in wheat, rye, and barley) actually makes people who haven’t been ...

Your gluten sensitivity may not be caused by gluten. A recent study shows that the real culprit could be fructan. Fructan is a type of carbohydrate. You can find it in grains like wheat ...

In their paper published in the journal Gastroenterology, the group describes experiments they conducted with volunteers eating foods with and without fructan and gluten and what they found.

But new research from Norway suggests it's not gluten that causes issues for these people… it's a FODMAP called fructan. Fructans are a type of short-chain carbohydrate often referred to as FODMAPs.

Fructan is a type of carbohydrate found in wheat, and many scientists are beginning to suspect it could be the dietary villain behind many people's acute gastrointestinal upsets rather than gluten.

During digestion, carbs are broken down to simple sugars like glucose, fructose and sucrose. Fructan is a fructose polymer or in simple terms, many fructose molecules bind together to form a ...

New research suggests that, for a fraction of this group, it may be another food property that is at the root of their ailments: fructan. In a new study published online in Gastroenterology ...

A clinically significant association exists between fructose and fructan malabsorption in certain patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), indicating that some may benefit from eliminating ...

Your gluten sensitivity may not be caused by gluten. A recent study shows that the real culprit could be fructan. Fructan is a type of carbohydrate. You can find it in grains like wheat ...