Is Typical bottled Caesar Dressing low FODMAP?

Mostly yes, with a serving cap — a light toss of bottled Caesar keeps trigger doses small, but a heavy pour stacks garlic from two directions. Using Ken's Steak House Creamy Caesar as the reference label, the base is soybean oil, water, distilled vinegar, egg yolk, Parmesan cheese, and salt — all unremarkable on a low FODMAP approach — with garlic puree, onion, dried garlic, molasses, and corn syrup tucked into the less-than-2% cluster. Parmesan is an aged hard cheese, so its lactose content is negligible; anchovies and egg yolk are FODMAP-free; and plain corn syrup, unlike high fructose corn syrup, is mostly glucose. What pushes the score to moderate is the fructan side: garlic appears twice on the label, once as puree and again dried, alongside onion and a trace of molasses. Because all of those sit below the 2% line, a restrained one-tablespoon coating keeps the total dose genuinely small, while a two-to-three tablespoon ladle — or using the bottle as a bread dip — multiplies it. If Caesar is a weekly staple, a homemade version with olive oil, egg yolk, lemon, anchovy, Parmesan, and garlic-infused oil recreates the flavor with the garlic solids left out.

📏 The trigger ingredients sit under the 2% line, so a light 1-tablespoon toss keeps doses small; a 2-3 tablespoon pour, or using it as a bread dip, stacks garlic from two separate label entries.