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Is Pepperidge Farm Goldfish Cheddar low FODMAP?
FODMAP score
78
High FODMAP
No — cheddar Goldfish stack onion powder on top of a wheat-flour base, and that combination is what this scale penalizes hardest. The label: enriched wheat flour, cheddar cheese (cultured milk, salt, enzymes, annatto), canola and/or sunflower oil, salt, then 2% or less of yeast, sugar, autolyzed yeast extract, paprika, spices, celery, onion powder, monocalcium phosphate, and baking soda. Onion powder is the headline problem: dehydrating onion concentrates its fructans, so even a 2%-or-less listing spreads real trigger potential through every single cracker — you can't pick around it. Underneath, the wheat flour adds its own dose-dependent fructan load across the roughly 51-piece serving, and an unspecified "spices" entry adds uncertainty on a label that already uses onion. The actual cheddar is the innocent party here — real cultured cheese retains little lactose — and the trace celery isn't a practical concern at cracker doses. Because the main trigger is a concentrated powder rather than just flour, portion control helps less than with plain crackers: half a serving still delivers onion in every bite. For onion-sensitive snackers this is a clear skip; a cheddar cracker without onion powder is the better trade for the lunchbox.
What's inside
📏 About 51 pieces (30 g) per serving, but the onion powder is baked into every cracker — halving the portion halves the wheat, not the presence of onion.
Gentler alternatives
↳Annie's Cheddar Bunnies — Kid-familiar cheddar cracker without onion powder on its label — still wheat-based, so a half-step; check the bag.
↳Blue Diamond Nut-Thins Cheddar — Drops both the wheat and the onion in one swap.
↳Plain rice crackers with aged cheddar — Wheat-free, onion-free, and aged cheese is naturally very low in lactose.
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