Guidance
Trust-variance topics, the evidence behind the tiers, and the disclaimers worth reading once properly rather than skimming on every page.
- Onions, leeks, garlic and shallots
Alliums are stringy in exactly the way this diet worries about, and usable in exactly one form.
- Berries and sieved fruit
A raspberry is seeds held together by juice, and what happens to it in a sieve is the whole of the argument.
- Cauliflower, broccoli and the cabbage family
One of the sharpest disagreements between trusts, and a food group with two separate problems rather than one.
- Herbs and spices
The most contested corner of this diet, and the reason so much of the flavour in this book comes from infusions and stock.
- Milk and lactose
Milk contains no fibre at all, which is why fibre leaflets leave it alone, and why the restriction, when it comes, comes from somewhere else.
- Oats and porridge
The clearest example in the book of one food sitting in three places at once, depending on what the leaflet was written to solve.
- Smooth peanut butter
The clearest single case of this book being stricter than most hospitals, and it is worth asking about.
- How good is the evidence
This diet is prescribed almost universally and studied surprisingly little, and it is better to say so than to imply otherwise.
- Tomatoes and passata
Everyone restricts tomato skins and seeds, and the disagreement is only about which prepared forms count as having removed them.
- Using this book with your team
What to take to a dietitian appointment, what to ask, and what this book is and is not.
- Where hospitals differ
Trusts agree at the edges of this diet and disagree in the middle, which is exactly where a cookbook has to choose.