Is Ritz Crackers Original low FODMAP?

A short stack, usually yes — half a sleeve, no. Ritz Original is a refined-wheat cracker with a trace of high fructose corn syrup, and both loads are all about dose. The label reads: unbleached enriched wheat flour, soybean and/or canola oil, palm oil, sugar, salt, leavening, high fructose corn syrup, soy lecithin, and natural flavor. Wheat flour is the first ingredient, so fructans are the number that matters — but the label serving is small (5 crackers, about 16 g), and refined flour carries less fructan per gram than whole wheat, which keeps a snack-size portion on the milder end of the cracker shelf. The HFCS looks alarming on paper as an excess-fructose sweetener, yet it sits behind salt in the list, so the per-cracker dose is tiny. The oils, plain sucrose, and soy lecithin are all FODMAP-quiet. The practical read: five or six crackers alongside a meal is a modest wheat dose; absent-mindedly working through half a sleeve turns it into a bread-sized fructan serving. If refined wheat in small amounts sits fine with you, Ritz is one of the easier mainstream boxes — just count the stack.

📏 Label serving is 5 crackers (16 g) — a modest refined-wheat dose. Half a sleeve reaches bread-slice fructan territory; the HFCS stays trivial at any realistic portion.