Eating right when you haveinflammatory bowel disease (IBD)can be a real challenge.

To complicate matters more, a food that’s just fine today may cause problems tomorrow.

There is no one diet that is recommended for every person with IBD.

Person chopping vegetables and reading cooking instructions off of an iPad

Neustockimages / E+ / Getty Images

Is it OK to eat anything, or should there still be restrictions?

Learning what foods work and which don’t is an ongoing process.

2017;9(3):259. doi:10.3390/nu9030259