A Primal Primer: FODMAPs. You could be having a fairly routine conversation about health and nutrition where everything discussed is familiar. You hear things like âcarbsâ and âmedium chain triglyceridesâ and âfructoseâ and âmacrosâ and âglutenâ and âPUFAs,â thinking nothing of it. Like I said, routine. Then someone mentions FODMAPs.
Pounds are the British/English currency. Originally â¤ with two cross-bars, then later more commonly Â£ with a single cross-bar. The full, official name, pound sterling, is used mainly in formal contexts and also when it is necessary to distinguish the United Kingdom currency from other currencies with the same name.
The use of the phrase pound sign to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. Before this time, and still outside the U.S., the term pound sign was used to refer to the pound currency symbol (Â£) or the pound weight symbol (lb). An alternative theory is that this name arose from the fact that character encodings used the same code for both the number sign and the British pound sign Â£.