This dietary advice sheet provides recommendations for diet options to reduce the build-up of intestinal gas and changes in rectum volume during radiation therapy treatment.
Please observe the dietary advice as per the doctors’ instructions and contact our Patient Concierge at +65 8101 3838 if there are any questions.
Food to choose
- White bread, plain biscuits
- White rice, porridge
- Noodles, pasta, beehoon
- Roti prata, naan, thosai, pancakes
- Processed breakfast cereals such as cornflakes
Food to avoid
- Wholegrain/ wholemeal/ multigrain bread, wheat biscuits & any bread/ biscuits containing seeds, nuts or dried fruit
- Brown rice, porridge
- Brown rice beehoon, wholemeal pasta
- Chapatti
- Oats & any breakfast cereals containing wholegrains, bran, seeds, nuts or dried fruit
- Potatoes with skin
Food to choose
- Strained fruit juices
- Canned or cooked fruits (without skin and seeds), fruit cocktail
- Avocado, apricots, cherries, peaches, pears, honeydew, plums and ripe bananas (all without skin and seeds)
Food to avoid
- Blended fruit juices containing pulp
- All other raw and dried fruits
Food to choose
- Cooked or canned vegetables without seeds, such as asparagus, green beans, carrots, mushrooms, spinach and pumpkin
Food to avoid
- All other vegetables
Food to choose
- Ground or well-cooked, tender beef, lamb, ham, veal,
- Pork, poultry, fish
- Tofu, eggs, cheese
Food to avoid
- Tough fibrous meats
- Shellfish with tough connective tissue
- Nuts & seeds
- Tempeh
Food to choose
- Ice-cream, jelly, pudding
- Plain yogurt (limit to 2 cups per day)
- Swiss rolls, sponge cakes
Food to avoid
- Kuehs, Mooncake
- Desserts made with beans, seeds and grated coconut, such as ice-kachang, chendol
- Cakes made of wholegrain flour with nuts, seeds or dried fruit
Food to choose
- Clear soups
- Soyabean milk, barley, honey water, carbonated drinks & milk (limit to 2 cups per day)
Food to avoid
- Blended vegetable soups
- Prune juice, Yakult/Vitagen, beverages containing caffeine
Food to choose
- Honey, butter, margarine, mayonnaise, tomato/chilli sauce
Food to avoid
- Crunchy peanut butter, jam with seeds, pickles, olives, popcorn