Kashi Go Lean Crunch upsetting stomach?

I get cramps and gas within less than an hour of eating GoLean Crunch. The cramps aren't that bad, but the gas is voluminous! I could eat an entire head of broccoli with a bulb of garlic and have less gas. I've switched to just eating old fashioned oats.

Similar Problem..But after Eating Fibre One Bars. Stoped Eating them and switched to Kashi.Now All is well

If you really want to be able to eat it, I suggest building up slowly every day with more and more fibre in your diet. Once you reach at least 25g a day, it should be safe to add in kashi without too much stomach gas. If you go from a fairly low fibre diet to one with kashi that's major stomach trouble! lol

Wish I read thos before eating breakfast this morning. This is the first time I am glad that my clients are incontinent and farting sounds are common.

Any ideas as to how to lessen the effect? I gotta stop farting at work! hahah

quit eating it

Seriously I agree. Why would you eat something that upsets your stomach? That's your body talking to you. Same for any of the above posters. It seems ridiculous to me to eat a food that does that every day. Don't you think maybe you should stop eating something that your body responds to in that way?!?!?!

I LOVE KASHI.... I also Fart like an Old Plow Horse when I eat it!!!!!!! lol However, the gas has lessened over time.

It does that to me too. I think it's the sweetener or the soy in it. Although soy milk doesn't bother me. Just the cereal, not their bars. Fiber One does it, but All-Bran doesn't. I've never figured that out. Hope someone has the whole answer.

Carol

Any ideas as to how to lessen the effect? I gotta stop farting at work! hahah

quit eating it

Seriously I agree. Why would you eat something that upsets your stomach? That's your body talking to you. Same for any of the above posters. It seems ridiculous to me to eat a food that does that every day. Don't you think maybe you should stop eating
something that your body responds to in that way?!?!?!

Ditto this. Your body is telling you not to eat this. What about it is so essential that you must eat it?

I recently switched from All-Bran to Kashi' Go Lean Crunch cereal for breakfast. I don't generally have a sensitive stomach and I'm sure it's not the fibre content that's doing this, but my stomach has not been feeling well since switching. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas as to what might be causing it or how to lessen the effect? I gotta stop farting at work! hahah

The reaction that you are having is almost certainly due to chicory root extract.

It is a form of fiber which is put in foods because it is easy to add without disrupting the taste, plus it has a reputation as a prebiotic. This means basically that it is a favored 'food' for the helpful bacteria that lives in your intestines. Human's don't digest it, it gets down to the bacteria and they go to town on it.

Some people are very sensitive to it and tend to get an upset stomach. This *may* be an indication that your current crop of bacteria living in your gut isn't as accustomed to high fiber intake as it ought to be and isn't as healthy as it could be. People sometimes find that they feel much better if they take a probiotic for a while (that's a pill that actually contains the sorts of bacteria that are supposed to populate your intestine. You take the pill and it makes its way down into your digestive system to help populate it with the right bacteria just in case what should be there isn't. People often take acidophilus pills for that, which is one of the bacteria involved, but there are also pills that supply a mix of organisms).

You could try the probiotics. You could try ramping up your intake slowly to give your body a chance to adjust. You could try putting that cereal away for a little while and trying again later to see if things have improved. If you don't want to do any of those things, or they don't work, you'll probably just have to eat a different cereal. In that case, you'll want to look at your foods and be cautious of anything that contains "inulin" or "chicory root extract" (this includes probably MOST foods that have really unusually high amounts of fiber for their category... like if most breads you look at have 5 grams of fiber a serving, and you pick up another one and it has 11, the difference is probably because the company is supplementing the fiber count in their product with chicory root.)

I mix mine with yogurt instead of milk, and I find that I don't have the problem. Maybe that's why. I had a terrible time with the Fiber One bars, but maybe I'll try again and eat yogurt at the same time. I liked them.

It's a challenge to me to get my fiber numbers up.