How Good Is Your Diet for Crohn’s?

How Good Is Your Diet for Crohn’s?

The ‘right’ diet for Crohn’s is the one that helps you feel your best. Take this quiz to assess how well your diet is working for you.
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Published on March 5, 2026
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How Good Is Your Diet for Crohn's Disease?

Rabia de Latour, MD, a gastroenterologist at NYU's Grossman School of Medicine, walks you through an assessment that can help you determine whether your diet is helping your symptoms or hurting them.

If you have Crohn’s disease, your diet goals likely go beyond tracking your macros or trying to eat enough protein. For you, the best diet is one that helps minimize flares and digestive symptoms, while providing the nutrients you need to stay healthy.

Complicating matters: There’s no one diet that works for everyone — and the food that triggers one person’s abdominal pain and cramping may not bother someone else. While it’s important to work with a nutritionist or dietitian to work out a more specific eating plan, says Reezwana Chowdhury, MD, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine in the gastroenterology department at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, there are a few known ways your diet can affect your symptoms.

Take this quiz to assess how your current diet is affecting you and whether there are changes you can make to improve your Crohn’s symptoms.

Question 1

Do you know which foods most commonly trigger your symptoms?

  • A. Yes, and I limit them or don’t have any.
  • B. I have a general idea, but it’s still a bit of a guessing game.
  • C. No. I’m really confused about what’s safe for me to eat.
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