Hi Team.
I can ask doctors and read articles online all day and won't get the quality of answers that I'll get here, so I'm coming straight here with this.
Do most of you have problems with tomatoes? I'm guessing yes but don't see it discussed much. My retired neighbor is an avid gardener and brought me over a huge container of 3 types of cherry tomatoes yesterday so that he could help me with my food experiments on what bothers me and what doesn't. Gotta love him.
Last night I ate 3 or 4 yellow tomatoes. No problem! Today at lunch I had 5 red cherry tomatoes: BIG PROBLEM. Do different types of tomatoes affect us differently or did I just get lucky yesterday and pushed my luck today?
Thanks in advance.
Sue
Curiosity Question: tomatoes
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Curiosity Question: tomatoes
Sue
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
Wow.... not what I would expect. If anything you'd think the raw would bother you. Strange how the same food in different forms can affect us. Thanks for the feedback.Lou Ann wrote:I don't seem to have trouble with tomatoes, I love them, BUT any kind of cooked tomato sauce gives me an instant run to the bathroom....why....I have no idea!!
Lou Ann
Sue
Sue
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
Tomato is a citrus fruit and the degree of acidity varies by species. Many of us have a very low tolerance for citric acid when our MC is active. Tomato sauce is probably made from varieties that tend to have a high citric acid content (I'm guessing).
Tex
Tex
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Gabes-Apg
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to expand on tex's reply, tomatos tend to be high in citric acid, so the first intake you had was probably ok, but the second intake couple with the fibrous nature of tomatos (skin, seeds etc) was too much for your inflamed gut.
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Gotcha, and of course that makes sense. I guess if I'm going to conduct this tomato experiment I would need to do it with a few days break in-between. Or perhaps I should just bring them to the office, give them away, and tell my neighbor not to give me anymore until the next harvest.Gabes-Apg wrote:to expand on tex's reply, tomatos tend to be high in citric acid, so the first intake you had was probably ok, but the second intake couple with the fibrous nature of tomatos (skin, seeds etc) was too much for your inflamed gut.
Sue
Sue
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
Diagnosed November 2004, Used Asacol and Lialda, sometimes worked, sometimes made it worse. Entocort always works but hate it. Remission only lasts 3-6 months and then back on Entocort. Enterolab test July 2017, now gluten free. Time will tell!
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deb51
tomatoes
I haven't tried tomatoes yet, it will be awhile for me. I just wanted to mention that the yellow tomatoes, big or small, have less acid
than their red counterparts. We used to grow them in our garden and I couldn't figure out why the yellow tomatoes always failed when
I tried to can them. A friend told me that they need a tablespoon of vinegar in each jar to can successfully.
than their red counterparts. We used to grow them in our garden and I couldn't figure out why the yellow tomatoes always failed when
I tried to can them. A friend told me that they need a tablespoon of vinegar in each jar to can successfully.