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Tasty&Healthy™ is a whole-food diet that provides a flexible nutritional therapy to control intestinal inflammation in children and adults with Crohn’s disease and to aid in the management of ulcerative colitis. It focuses on fresh, unprocessed ingredients.
The Tasty&Healthy™ diet is based on the latest research. It excludes foods that aggravate intestinal inflammation in the most up to date scientific evidence. It encourages avoiding processed and industrialized foods, animal fats, and gluten. Instead, Tasty&Healthy™ focuses on recipes made from fresh, whole foods, including vegetables, fruits, legumes, rice, gluten-free grains, eggs, poultry, seafood and fish. It offers a wide range of delicious food options to support gut health, and manage Crohn's disease. It induces clinical remission in 70% of patients with mild-moderate Crohn's disease and leads to healing or near healing of the inflammation in the intestine in 40-50%. Unlike in Crohn's disease where Tasty&Healthy™ can eliminate inflammation as a sole treatment in mild uncomplicated disease, in ulcerative colitis it is usually used to support medical treatment by ensuring increased fiber and reducing processed foods, both previously found to aggravate colitis.
The Tasty&Healthy nutritional intervention spans 8 weeks. After this period, patients in clinical remission, with their physician and dietitian, may gradually attempt to reintroduce unprocessed whole gluten, milk, and dairy as part of a maintenance nutritional therapy plan while monitoring closely the inflammatory status in the bowel. Some can tolerate a more liberal diet and some do not.

 
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Foods to Avoid on "Tasty&Healthy"
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You Can Eat Freely Anything Not Included in the "To Avoid" List, for example:
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  1. Vegetables, fruits, natural fruit juices, and herbs.
  2. Fresh fish, seafood, and poultry (avoid frozen as it is often processed).
  3. Plain natural yogurt or probiotic yogurt without additives (e.g., fruits, vitamins, flavors).
  4. Eggs (limit to one per day).
  5. Vegetable oils, preferably olive or canola oil, provided they are not used for deep frying.
  6. Gluten-free grains such as rice, quinoa, buckwheat, etc.
  7. Gluten-free oats.
  8. Legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, green beans, soybeans, etc.
  9. Gluten-free flours made from almond, coconut, oats, buckwheat, chickpeas, lentils, etc.
  10. All types of nuts, including peanuts, almonds, and sesame seeds.
  11. Natural coffee and tea (without flavoring).
  12. Natural spices (additive-free).
  13. Any other unprocessed, additive-free foods not listed in the "avoid" section.

    *The items shown in the pictures are only examples of the permitted foods.
The Tasty&Healthy™ Maintenance Nutritional Therapy
The effect of different types of food on intestinal inflammation can vary between individuals. The Tasty&Healthy™ Maintenance Nutritional Therapy Plan allows a personalized approach by gradually reintroducing specific foods every four weeks under the guidance of your medical team. Progress will be monitored using fecal calprotectin levels which is a sensitive marker of bowel inflammation, aided by blood tests, such as C-reactive protein.

Every four weeks, new food items will be added to your diet, starting with low quantity gluten (mainly whole spelt, barley, rye and oats), followed by milk and dairy. Importantly, also during the maintenance phase you should continue to avoid all processed and packaged foods—anything that comes in a box, bottle, can, bag, or package—except foods containing only a single nutritional ingredient without any added substances listed on the label. Based on your calprotectin test results, your dietitian or medical team will provide tailored guidance for the next steps. This process will also allow you to observe and evaluate how your body responds to different foods (e.g., diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating, etc.).
Packaged products, especially industrial bread, often contain artificial additives that should be avoided.

Incorporate calcium-rich foods such as natural yogurt, green vegetables, lentils, beans, oranges, almonds, tahini, whole sesame, nuts, and seeds. If tolerated during the maintenance phase, dairy may also be included. Talk to your dietician if based on your diet you require calcium supplements. Vitamin D levels should be monitored in all individuals with IBD and treat if low.
About us
The Tasty&HealthyTM diet was developed by leading specialists in inflammatory bowel disease and nutrition. It is based on the latest scientific discoveries about the causative role of foods in the development of intestinal inflammation. Groundbreaking research showed that Tasty&HealthyTM diet can help induce remission in children and young adults with mild-to-moderate Crohn's disease, similar to Exclusive Enteral Nutrition (EEN). Also, Tasty&HealthyTM diet is effective in reducing inflammation in patients with Crohn’s disease who have no symptoms but still significant bowel inflammation. 
The Tasty&HealthyTM research program was funded by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and led by Professor Dan Turner, head of the Juliet Keidan Institute of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem.