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Tomato (cherry)
Vegetables · Nightshades
TLDRLast updated 4 September 2026
Cherry tomatoes are counted rather than weighed, and four of them (80 g, about a small handful) are rated green, carrying 0.06 g of fructans and 0.08 g of excess fructose. Four is also the only serve tested, so it is the portion this guide can vouch for, not a ceiling where the rating is known to change.
Last updated 4 September 2026Serving sizes for tomato (cherry)
The tested serve is 4 cherry tomatoes, about 80 g, rated green. No larger amount has been tested.
4 cherry tomatoesabout 80 g
Tested serving sizes
| Serving | Amount | Main FODMAP | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 cherry tomatoes | 80 g | Fructose 0.08 g |
Breakdown for 4 cherry tomatoes
0.08gFructose
0gLactose
0.06gFructans
0gGOS
0gSorbitol
0gMannitol
4 cherry tomatoesabout 80 g
Is tomato (cherry) low FODMAP?
Two groups register at all: 0.06 g of fructans, under the 0.1 g line where fructans start to count, and 0.08 g of excess fructose. Lactose, GOS, sorbitol and mannitol all read zero. Cherry tomatoes taste noticeably sweeter than a salad tomato, and that sweetness is easy to misread as a FODMAP problem. Only the fructose left over once the glucose in the fruit has been matched counts as excess fructose, so a sweeter tomato is not automatically a riskier one. Per gram the figures sit close to fresh tomato, where one small tomato of 75 g holds 0.05 g of fructans.
Tomato (cherry) and IBS: what to know
The practical difficulty is that nobody really serves cherry tomatoes. They disappear from the punnet four or five at a time while you are making dinner, and counting them onto the plate is most of the discipline here. In a salad they usually arrive halved, so eight halves look like a modest scattering when they are twice the tested amount. If tomato has felt like a trigger for you, a bowl of these eaten plain is a much cleaner thing to test yourself against than a cooked dish, where the sauce, the dressing and the seasoning all have a vote.
Gut-friendly ways to eat tomato (cherry)
Halved into a salad with cucumber, rocket and feta, cherry tomatoes carry a plate with no cooking at all. Roasted whole until they collapse, they become an instant sauce for rice or pasta, and the number on the tray is easy to keep track of before it goes in the oven. Dressing is where trouble usually enters, since most bottled vinaigrettes and marinades list onion or garlic within the first few ingredients. Mix your own from olive oil, vinegar, salt and a little garlic-infused oil, which is rated green.
Recipes with tomato (cherry)
Frequently asked questions
How many cherry tomatoes can I eat at once?
Four is the amount the data covers, and it is rated green. Nothing larger has been tested, which means a bigger handful is not known to be high FODMAP so much as unmeasured. If you tend to graze on them, spread them across the day rather than finishing a punnet in one sitting, particularly on a day when tomato also turns up in a sauce or a salad.
Are cherry tomatoes lower FODMAP than normal tomatoes?
They are close. Four cherry tomatoes hold 0.06 g of fructans and one small fresh tomato holds 0.05 g, and both of those serves are rated green. The difference worth knowing is not the variety but the map: fresh tomato has a second tested point at one large tomato, 200 g, which is rated amber, while the cherry entry has only the single point.
Are roasted cherry tomatoes still low FODMAP?
Yes, and it is the count rather than the heat that matters. Roasting drives off water and shrinks them, so a tray that went in as a punnet comes out as a couple of spoonfuls of intense sauce, with every tomato still in there. Portion them before they go into the oven rather than after, because the cooked volume tells you nothing about how many you started with.
Why do cherry tomatoes taste sweeter than other tomatoes?
Mostly breeding: cherry varieties are selected for a higher sugar-to-acid balance than salad types, so they read as sweeter on the tongue. Sweetness and FODMAP load are separate questions, though. The excess fructose across four of them comes to 0.08 g and the serve stays green, while honey tastes sweet for a very different reason and is rated red.
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