Nutrition before your colonoscopy

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Nutrition before your colonoscopy - Practice Dr. Brand - Gastroenterology and Urology - Urologist - Gastroenterologist - in Planegg - Martinsried - Munich

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Search or filter for foods that you can still eat up to a certain day before your colonoscopy appointment. If you wish, you can print the results to create a personalized meal plan. Be consistent - optimal cleanliness is your contribution to high safety and quality.

* The 'Tag' column indicates, until when the respective food may last be consumed.

Foodstuffs	Group	Day *	Remark
Pineapple	Fruit / Fruits	5
Apple peeled	Fruit / Fruits	2	only pulp, without skin and core
Applesauce	Fruit / Fruits	1
Apricot	Fruit / Fruits	2	should be well matured
Artichokes	Vegetables	6	Avoid due to high fiber content
Eggplant	Vegetables	6	Avoid because of the seeds it contains
Avocado	Fruit / Fruits	2	should be well matured
Bamboo	Vegetables	6	Avoid due to high fiber content
Banana	Fruit / Fruits	2	Fibers must be removed!
Beer	Drinks	1
Pear	Fruit / Fruits	3	Remove the peel and core
Leaf salad	Miscellaneous	5	Lettuce, oak leaf lettuce, lamb's lettuce, Batavia lettuce
Cauliflower florets	Vegetables	4	cook until soft, steam or puree
Beans	Vegetables	6	please avoid because of cores
Beans	Pulses	7
Roast cold cuts	Meat / Fish	1	Please eat lean and low-fat in the last few days
Pretzel	Cereals / nuts	2
Broccoli florets	Vegetables	4	cook until soft, steam or puree
Blackberries	Fruit / Fruits	6	Caution: contain small seeds
Rolls with grains	Cereals / nuts	6
Rolls without grains	Cereals / nuts	1	e.g. Kaisersemmel, milk roll
Butter, margarine	Dairy products	1	only a little and low in fat the day before
Buttermilk	Dairy products	2
Cashew	Cereals / nuts	7
Chips	Sweets	1
Cornflakes	Cereals / nuts	2
Couscous	Cereals / nuts	4
Crepe	Cereals / nuts	1
Eggs	Dairy products	2
Iron tablets (e.g. Ferro Sanol)	Miscellaneous	4	Caution: can discolor the stool and make it difficult to see
Peas	Pulses	7
Strawberries	Fruit / Fruits	6	Caution: contain small seeds
Figs	Fruit / Fruits	6
Fish	Meat / Fish	2	Caution: remove bones carefully
Meatloaf	Meat / Fish	1
Psyllium husks	Cereals / nuts	4	swelling
Fruit yogurt	Dairy products	5	Caution: no fruit grains may be included!
Fruit juice clear / transparent	Drinks	0	e.g. clear apple juice or clear grape juice
Fruit juice with pulp	Drinks	4
Cloudy fruit juice	Drinks	2	Caution: no pulp!
Pureed vegetable soup	Vegetables	2	please puree completely (!)
Fine spices	Spices / sauces	4	Please grind very finely!
Coarse spices	Spices / sauces	6
Grapefruit	Fruit / Fruits	6
Cucumbers	Fruit / Fruits	6
Minced meat	Meat / Fish	3	Give preference to lean cuts and low-fat preparation
Oat flakes "tender"	Cereals / nuts	1	fine or gruel for babies
Wholemeal oat flakes	Cereals / nuts	6
Oat milk	Drinks	1
Hazelnut	Cereals / nuts	7
Raspberries	Fruit / Fruits	6	Caution: contain small seeds
Honey	Sweets	1
Honeydew melon	Fruit / Fruits	7
Chicken meat	Meat / Fish	2	Give preference to lean cuts and low-fat preparation
Currants	Fruit / Fruits	6	Caution: contain small seeds
Coffee	Drinks	1
Carrots / Carrots	Vegetables	2	cook until soft, steam or puree
Potatoes	Miscellaneous	2	Caution: remove the skin (peel), boil or steam well
Cheese	Dairy products	1	the day before, please eat only a little and low in fat
Chewing gum	Sweets	0	Attention: prohibited two hours before the appointment!
Cookies	Sweets	1	Important: without nuts or seeds!
Ketchup	Vegetables	1
Kiwi	Fruit / Fruits	7
Cherry	Fruit / Fruits	3
Clear meat stock	Meat / Fish	0
Clear vegetable stock	Vegetables	0	without insert
Celeriac	Vegetables	2	cook until soft, steam or puree
Kohlrabi	Vegetables	4	raw, cooked/pureed up to the 2nd day possible
Herbs	Spices / sauces	6
Pumpkin	Vegetables	4	Remove the seeds! Only cooked, e.g. as soup
Leberkäse	Meat / Fish	1
Gingerbread	Sweets	2	Important: without nuts or seeds!
Linseed	Cereals / nuts	7
Lenses	Pulses	7
Maize	Cereals / nuts	6	difficult to digest
Tangerine	Fruit / Fruits	6
Almonds	Cereals / nuts	7
Almond milk	Drinks	1
Mango	Fruit / Fruits	5	should be well matured, avoid fibers!
Mango yogurt	Dairy products	1
Milk	Drinks	1
Melon	Fruit / Fruits	7
Natural yogurt	Dairy products	1	only a little / low fat the day before
Brown rice	Cereals / nuts	7
Nectarine	Fruit / Fruits	5	should be well ripened, remove peel
White" pasta	Cereals / nuts	2
Nutella	Sweets	1
Oils	Spices / sauces	1	Sunflower oil, olive oil, walnut oil
Omelette	Dairy products	2
Orange	Fruit / Fruits	6
Paprika	Vegetables	6	difficult to digest
Parsnips	Vegetables	2	cook until soft, steam or puree
Pepperoni	Vegetables	6	difficult to digest
Pancakes	Cereals / nuts	1
Peach	Fruit / Fruits	5	should be well ripened, remove peel
Mushrooms	Vegetables	3	only soft-boiled, e.g. mushrooms, chanterelles, porcini mushrooms
Pistachios	Cereals / nuts	7
French fries	Miscellaneous	2
Turkey meat	Meat / Fish	2	Give preference to lean cuts and low-fat preparation
Quark	Dairy products	1	only a little / low fat the day before
Beef	Meat / Fish	3	Give preference to lean cuts and low-fat preparation
Red wine	Drinks	2
Beet	Vegetables	3	cooked and pureed
Salami	Meat / Fish	2	Please eat lean and low-fat in the last few days
Cooked ham	Meat / Fish	1	Please eat lean and low-fat in the last few days
Chocolate	Sweets	2	Important: without nuts or seeds!
Pork	Meat / Fish	3	Give preference to lean cuts and low-fat preparation
Sesame	Cereals / nuts	7
Soy yogurt	Miscellaneous	1	low fat only
Soy milk	Drinks	1
bean sprouts	Vegetables	7	difficult to digest
Sunflower seeds	Pulses	7
Asparagus	Vegetables	7	Avoid due to high fiber content
Turnip	Vegetables	6	Avoid due to high fiber content
Fried egg	Dairy products	2
Spinach	Vegetables	4	cook until soft, steam or puree
Celery	Vegetables	6	Avoid due to high fiber content
Fine spreadable sausage	Meat / Fish	1
Tea	Drinks	0	only clear and transparent, especially during preparation
Wholemeal toast	Cereals / nuts	5	There must be no visible grains!
Toast white	Cereals / nuts	1
Tofu	Vegetables	2
Tomatoes	Vegetables	4	Attention: contains small seeds
Tomato sauce	Vegetables	2	only strained tomatoes without seeds
Vanilla yogurt	Dairy products	1
Wholemeal bread with grains	Cereals / nuts	6
Wholemeal bread without grains	Cereals / nuts	3	Please make sure that absolutely no cores are visible.
Wholemeal pasta	Cereals / nuts	3
Walnut	Cereals / nuts	7
Water	Drinks	0
Watermelon	Fruit / Fruits	7
Grapes	Fruit / Fruits	7
White bread	Cereals / nuts	1	Please make sure that absolutely no cores are visible.
White wine	Drinks	1
Sausage fine	Meat / Fish	1	e.g. yellow sausage or Lyonnaise
Coarse sausage	Meat / Fish	2
Cigarettes	Miscellaneous	0	Attention: prohibited two hours before the appointment!
Plait	Cereals / nuts	1	without raisins!
Zucchini	Vegetables	6	please avoid because of cores
Rusk	Cereals / nuts	1
Onions	Vegetables	6	difficult to digest, flatulent