Is Rude Health Organic Brown Rice Drink low FODMAP?

Yes — this is one of the safest plant milks on a UK shelf, and the label that was pasted into the thread backs that up. Rude Health's Organic Brown Rice Drink contains just four things: spring water, organic brown rice (17%), organic cold-pressed sunflower oil and sea salt. Rice is naturally low in FODMAPs, and nothing else in the carton ferments: no chicory root fibre, no inulin, no gums, no pea protein — the quiet additions that push many other plant milks up the scale. Rice drinks are already among the gentlest milk alternatives, and this is an unusually clean example of the type. One number on the back of the pack tends to worry people: the sugars look high for an unsweetened drink. That sweetness is glucose and maltose created as the rice starch breaks down during production — neither is a FODMAP, so it reads worse than it behaves. A standard glass sits comfortably in the low range. Worth knowing for the kitchen rather than the gut: it is light-bodied, naturally sweet and low in protein, so it works better in cereal, smoothies and drinking than as a like-for-like milk in savoury cooking. For the question actually asked, though: green light.

📏 A 200ml glass sits comfortably in the low range. The sugars figure on the pack is glucose and maltose from the rice starch — not FODMAPs — so it is not a red flag for the gut.