Hi all,
I have a question. Has anyone tried the maple buckwheat flake cereal by Arrowhead Mills? These are the ingredients: Organic whole grain buckwheat grits, organic whole grain brown rice four, organic evaporated cane juice, organic whole grain buckwheat flour, organic maple syrup, sea salt, honey, ascorbic acide (vitamin C) and natural vitamin E.
I'm a little hesitant to try it after my recent terrible relapse but I'm getting tired of the same old food. What do you think?
melissa
Buckwheat flakes cereal question
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Hi Melissa,
I haven't tried it, because I'm corn intolerant, and ascorbic acid is usually made from corn. As long as you're not corn intolerant, though, it should be safe for youi. I assume that buckwheat grits is just coarsely ground buckwheat.
Wayne
I haven't tried it, because I'm corn intolerant, and ascorbic acid is usually made from corn. As long as you're not corn intolerant, though, it should be safe for youi. I assume that buckwheat grits is just coarsely ground buckwheat.
Wayne
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Morning Melissa,
I know buckwheat is ok for GF people but I have had terrible problems with it so I just avoid it.
Probably the only thing you can do is just try the cereal and see. Sorry no positive info from me.
Love, Maggie
I know buckwheat is ok for GF people but I have had terrible problems with it so I just avoid it.
Probably the only thing you can do is just try the cereal and see. Sorry no positive info from me.
Love, Maggie
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I'm not sure that it's all made from corn, but a very high percentage of synthetic vitamin C, (ascorbic acid), is made from corn, and almost all processed food sources use synthetic vitamin C, these days.
I thought that I might find some alternative sources on the internet, but when I searched, this is what I found:
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/faq.html
It pretty well agrees with what I have always assumed--that almost all of it is made from corn. You can still get vitamin C from natural sources, of course, if you eat fruits and veggies that contain vitamin C. I always assume that the processed foods, though, with ascorbic acid on the label, contain corn.
Unless you are highly sensitive to corn, sometimes the amounts of ascorbic acid in some foods are small enough that they are not a serious problem by themselves. If you eat several foods that contain it, though, the cumulative effect may catch up with you. I can tolerate small amounts, but I generally try to completely avoid it, just to be on the safe side.
The article mentions that Linus Pauling claims that the body cannot tell the difference between natural and synthetic forms of vitamin C. This might be true, because I note that I cannot tolerate any citrus fruits.
Apparently, ascorbic acid can cause diarrhea in normal healthy people. This article mentions that characteristic, while describing clinical use of it to treat other medical conditions:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html
Love,
Wayne
I thought that I might find some alternative sources on the internet, but when I searched, this is what I found:
http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/faq.html
It pretty well agrees with what I have always assumed--that almost all of it is made from corn. You can still get vitamin C from natural sources, of course, if you eat fruits and veggies that contain vitamin C. I always assume that the processed foods, though, with ascorbic acid on the label, contain corn.
Unless you are highly sensitive to corn, sometimes the amounts of ascorbic acid in some foods are small enough that they are not a serious problem by themselves. If you eat several foods that contain it, though, the cumulative effect may catch up with you. I can tolerate small amounts, but I generally try to completely avoid it, just to be on the safe side.
The article mentions that Linus Pauling claims that the body cannot tell the difference between natural and synthetic forms of vitamin C. This might be true, because I note that I cannot tolerate any citrus fruits.
Apparently, ascorbic acid can cause diarrhea in normal healthy people. This article mentions that characteristic, while describing clinical use of it to treat other medical conditions:
http://www.doctoryourself.com/titration.html
Love,
Wayne
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.