Footnotes

• Contributors EPH and PRG wrote, revised and approved the final version of the article.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests EPH has no perceived conflicts of interest. PRG has authored two educational/recipe books on the FODMAP diet. Monash University financially benefits from the sales of a digital application, booklets and online courses on the FODMAP diet.

• Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

• Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.