GAPS Diet Beef Soup Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Is honey allowed on gap diet? ›

HONEY. The GAPS recommends choosing honey as the sweetener of choice.

The GAPS Diet occurs in two phases. The Introduction Diet lasts eighteen to thirty days (roughly three to ve days per stage) and involves removing all foods that might be gut irritants, such as dairy, from your daily intake. You then reintroduce certain foods slowly and look for adverse reactions.

Selecting the right bacon is important: GAPS does not recommend smoked meats as they normally contain nitrites or other substitutes that are even worse than nitrites with alleged cancer causing agents so store bought bacon is out (including some nitrate free commercial brands).

Other cheeses that are allowed on Full GAPS: Asiago, Blue, Brick, Brie, Camembert, Cheddar, Colby, Edam, Gorgonzola, Gouda, Havarti, Limburger, Monterey Jack, Muenster, Parmesan, Port du Salut, Roquefort, Stilton, Swiss, Romano, un-creamed cottage cheese (dry curd).

Questionable claims of the GAPS diet. Despite brain-gut connection and the importance of maintaining healthy gut bacteria, there's no evidence that the GAPS diet is effective. Dr. Campbell-McBride makes many claims that aren't backed by science and promotes practices that go against traditional medical advice.

Fruits in the GAPS Diet are only allowed in moderation: Apples. Banana. Berries.

Vegetables that are not allowed on the diet include potatoes, sweet potatoes, parsnips, and yams. Beans and legumes are also not allowed on the GAPS diet. On the GAPs diet, sugar is considered harmful to the gut lining.

Foods to Avoid (or Limit)

Grains, including cereal, oats and wheat. Sugar, honey, agave syrup, and molasses.

What can GAPS diet heal? ›

The Gut and Psychology Syndrome Diet, also known as the GAPS diet, is a therapeutic diet commonly used in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, leaky gut syndrome, autism, ADHD, depression, anxiety and autoimmune disease.

For clear, brothy soups, stock is your most important ingredient. If you want to make a good soup, you need to use an excellently flavored stock — otherwise, the entire pot could be tasteless.

Stock bases are usually sold as pastes or in liquid form, where broth bases are most commonly sold as powders or in cubes and can be referred to as bouillon. To use either of these in recipes, simply follow the package directions to add water to create the amount of stock or broth called for in your recipe.

You can never go wrong with thyme sprigs, sage leaves, and bay leaves. Red wine vinegar. Adding an acidic ingredient like red wine vinegar, red wine, lemon juice, or apple cider vinegar is supposed to help break down the bones and extract the nutrients, creating a flavorful, nutrient-dense broth.

Sugar-free diets encourage people to avoid table sugar (sucrose), sweeteners such as honey and maple syrup, refined flours, condiments, soft drinks, sweets and some fruits such as bananas. Some also recommend eliminating or restricting dairy products.

Removing starch and di-saccherides is why grains, potatoes, lactose, and even maple syrup are not GAPS legal, while honey, nuts, seeds, and some legumes with lower starch content are. This is also why most “gluten-free” flours available are not GAPS-legal.

Is honey a natural or added sugar? Honey is a naturally occurring sugar and is also considered an added sugar, which can be confusing. Although pure honey is made by nature and no sugars are added during its production, consuming pure honey contributes added sugars to the diet.