Is Lawry's Garlic Salt low FODMAP?

Garlic salt is high-FODMAP by design: garlic is the second ingredient on Lawry's current label — salt, garlic, modified corn starch, sugar, parsley, garlic oil, and carrot extract for color — and dried garlic is one of the densest fructan sources per gram on any grocery shelf. Yes, the jar is mostly salt, and saltiness naturally caps how much anyone uses, which is why the score isn't pinned at the very top. But every pinch exists to deliver garlic, and dehydrated garlic concentrates fructans far beyond what the same visual amount of fresh garlic would carry. There's an instructive detail on this label: garlic oil, listed near the end, is actually the low-FODMAP way to get garlic flavor — fructans are water-soluble and don't migrate into oil. In this jar, though, the oil rides alongside real dried garlic, so it doesn't rescue anything. McCormick's own garlic salt reads essentially the same way. The swap is easy and genuinely equivalent: plain salt in the dish plus garlic-infused olive oil for the aroma reproduces what garlic salt does without the fructan payload, and purpose-made options like Fody's garlic-infused oil are stocked in US stores and online.

📏 Even a 1/4 teaspoon is a deliberate dose of concentrated dried garlic — there is no shake size that makes this jar garlic-free.