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5-10 g/day. The meta-analysis found larger bifidogenic effects above 5 g/d, and the dose-finding study concluded 10 g/d was the optimal well-tolerated dose. Do not extrapolate upward: at 20 g/d excess flatus became significantly more frequent and more intense

With meals · with food

Short-chain FOS (scFOS) powder

3.5-5.5 g/day. Going higher is not supported: in the one IBS trial, 3.5 g/d improved more symptoms than 7 g/d, and in stressed students 2.5 g lowered cold-or-flu symptom scores across all stress levels while 5 g helped only at lower stress

With meals · with food

Trans-galactooligosaccharide (B-GOS) powder, the form used in the trials

• Strict low-FODMAP diet — FOS is one of the oligosaccharides that diet removes
• Hereditary fructose intolerance

• Lactulose (and other fermentable laxatives)

• Strict low-FODMAP diet — GOS is one of the oligosaccharides that diet removes
• Active symptom flare in FODMAP-sensitive IBS

• Lactulose (and other fermentable laxatives)