Snacks, Sweets, and Desserts

All meals deserve a sweet ending, but when you can’t have chocolate, lemon, and many fruits, your choices may seem limited as you try to satisfy that sweet tooth. The selection of desserts gets even slimmer for some bladder patients who cannot tolerate all of the ingredients used in many prepackaged desserts or dessert mixes. Good news, there are many snacks and desserts that are Bladder Friendly for most!

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Snacks, Sweets, and Desserts List

Note: Foods labeled with a plus sign (+) may be especially soothing during an IC flare according to patient reports.

Bladder Friendly

  • almonds
  • berries – blueberries
  • cake – homemade pound cake+, angel food+,
  • homemade white/yellow cakes+, carrot
  • carrots
  • carob
  • celery
  • cheesecake
  • chips (plain) – corn , potato
  • creme brûlée
  • cookies – oatmeal+, shortbread, sugar+
  • crackers – soda or soup
  • custards+
  • divinity
  • frostings - homemade vanilla frosting, homemade caramel frosting, carob, whipped cream
  • fruit bars – blueberry, pear
  • ice cream – peppermint, vanilla+
  • maple syrup
  • milkshake – vanilla+
  • muffins – carrot, blueberry, cream filled
  • oatmeal bars
  • pastries – plain, almond, pear
  • peanuts
  • peanut butter
  • pie – custard, cream pie, homemade apple pie (with safe apples), pumpkin pie
  • popcorn
  • pretzels – plain
  • pudding – tapioca, vanilla+, rice+
  • sweet breads – homemade zucchini bread+
  • sweeteners – brown sugar, honey+, sugar

Try It

  • artificial sweeteners – Splenda® (sucralose)
  • candy – caramel, licorice
  • chocolate – white
  • donuts – glazed, old fashioned
  • fruit & nut bars – with safe ingredients
  • graham crackers
  • ice cream – caramel, coconut, mango, peppermint, butter pecan
  • licorice
  • pastries – blueberry, cinnamon
  • pizza – plain, chicken & garlic, veggie or made with white sauce - no pepperoni
  • popsicles – some
  • sorbet – coconut
  • sweet bread – banana
  • yogurt – frozen

Caution

  • artificial sweeteners – acesulfame K
  • aspartame, Nutrasweet®, saccharine, Sweet-N-Low, stevia
  • candy – red hot-type cinnamon
  • chips – potato (seasoned, barbequed)
  • chocolate – cocoa, milk, bittersweet, dark
  • desserts – with problem nuts
  • dessert cakes – fast food restaurants
  • fruitcakes
  • ice cream – chocolate, coffee, rocky road
  • pastries – with problem fruits
  • pie – pecan, mincemeat
  • sorbets – with problem fruits

IC Food List