NICE!!!! I spent my lunch hour perusing the natural foods aisle at my local groc store..
Found Health Valley Old-Fashioned Root Beer. Contains simply:
sparkling filtered water, fructose, molasses, citric acid, carmel color, natural flavors (anise, nutmeg, closve and other herbal extracts).
This rocks!!! I'm a little concerned about the Fructose and Citrix Acid, but hey, I gotta try it.
It was $1.26 a bottle tho, 12 fluid oz. That's steep, but hey, I've been drinking nothing but water, kool aid, and apple juice for like 6 months.
Christine
Found Root Beer I can drink!!!!
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TendrTummy
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Hi Christine,
If the natural flavorings that you listed are a comprehensive listing of the components of the natural flavors in the drink, then it is gluten free. I'm curious, though--those are basically the same ingredients found in almost all of the most popular soft drinks these days, (coke, pepsi, dr. pepper, 7-up, sprite, etc., so why not just drink them. The carmel color and citric acid almost certainly come from corn, (just like the HFCS). The fructose in the root beer is not significantly different from the HFCS found in the other drinks, and the molases contains the same type of sugar as the original formulation of dr. pepper, (cane sugar). Are you really gaining anything with that root beer?
Tex
If the natural flavorings that you listed are a comprehensive listing of the components of the natural flavors in the drink, then it is gluten free. I'm curious, though--those are basically the same ingredients found in almost all of the most popular soft drinks these days, (coke, pepsi, dr. pepper, 7-up, sprite, etc., so why not just drink them. The carmel color and citric acid almost certainly come from corn, (just like the HFCS). The fructose in the root beer is not significantly different from the HFCS found in the other drinks, and the molases contains the same type of sugar as the original formulation of dr. pepper, (cane sugar). Are you really gaining anything with that root beer?
Tex
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Tex,
I have no idea.. all I know is when I was drinking coke on a daily basis, and I'm talking ALL DAY here, I was in pain all day. and all evening. once I removed it from my diet, I was no longer in constant pain..
I was not feeling well last evening and I'm not sure if it was from the root beer - I have one more, and I was thinking of retesting this evening.
It's made by Health Valley, which is the same company that makes the pure rice cereal I eat so often. It was the only decent tasting cereal I could find without malt.
I dunno about other corn derivitives, but I clearly react to high fructose corn syrup, and corn syrup. This root beer COULD be something too similar to regular coke for me to drink but I'm not sure yet. It is made of all natural, organic, healthier ingredients than your average coke, however.. so whether or not I'm reacting to it, at least I'm not killing myself with it.. (frankly, I think coke kills LOL)
In other words - I'm not so sure I'm reacting to CORN, as much as the HFCS or other sugar substitutes that are altered mechanically or whatever they do to them. I did try corn as a test last weekend, corn on the cob (unprocessed), and didn't seem to have any reaction to it (but I definitely need to retest).
Christine
I have no idea.. all I know is when I was drinking coke on a daily basis, and I'm talking ALL DAY here, I was in pain all day. and all evening. once I removed it from my diet, I was no longer in constant pain..
I was not feeling well last evening and I'm not sure if it was from the root beer - I have one more, and I was thinking of retesting this evening.
It's made by Health Valley, which is the same company that makes the pure rice cereal I eat so often. It was the only decent tasting cereal I could find without malt.
I dunno about other corn derivitives, but I clearly react to high fructose corn syrup, and corn syrup. This root beer COULD be something too similar to regular coke for me to drink but I'm not sure yet. It is made of all natural, organic, healthier ingredients than your average coke, however.. so whether or not I'm reacting to it, at least I'm not killing myself with it.. (frankly, I think coke kills LOL)
In other words - I'm not so sure I'm reacting to CORN, as much as the HFCS or other sugar substitutes that are altered mechanically or whatever they do to them. I did try corn as a test last weekend, corn on the cob (unprocessed), and didn't seem to have any reaction to it (but I definitely need to retest).
Christine
Hi Christine,
Maybe you have the same problem that I have, and react to virtually all types of complex sugars, in any significant quantities. If fact, cane sugar seems to bother me even more than HFCS. It creates a burning pain in my gut that lasts for several days. Since it's a fermentation problem, it takes me about 5 or 6 days, usually, to get to the D stage, at which point I will start to feel better.
For example, my last reaction was triggered by drinking lemonade on last Friday and Saturday. The pain started an hour or two after drinking the second lemonade, (Saturday), I had D Thursday, and felt good enough to work yesterday, and today the bloating is finally all gone, and I feel great, (after a full week of feeling crappy). Does that ring any bells?
Wayne
Maybe you have the same problem that I have, and react to virtually all types of complex sugars, in any significant quantities. If fact, cane sugar seems to bother me even more than HFCS. It creates a burning pain in my gut that lasts for several days. Since it's a fermentation problem, it takes me about 5 or 6 days, usually, to get to the D stage, at which point I will start to feel better.
For example, my last reaction was triggered by drinking lemonade on last Friday and Saturday. The pain started an hour or two after drinking the second lemonade, (Saturday), I had D Thursday, and felt good enough to work yesterday, and today the bloating is finally all gone, and I feel great, (after a full week of feeling crappy). Does that ring any bells?
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.
Wayne and Christine
Sounds exactly like the reaction I have had since I first began recognizing what I ate contributing to my problems. I have never found any soda that does not give me the burning pain. Usually within a very short period of time. I have assumed that the starches like rice and potatoes that are so quickly converted to sugar may be part of the same problem since the symptoms are very much the same. If I want something fizzie someone way back mentioned drinking club soda or seltzer water with fruit juice added. Works well for me if I do not over do the fruit juice. It is not to bad to add to ice tea either
Matthew
Sounds exactly like the reaction I have had since I first began recognizing what I ate contributing to my problems. I have never found any soda that does not give me the burning pain. Usually within a very short period of time. I have assumed that the starches like rice and potatoes that are so quickly converted to sugar may be part of the same problem since the symptoms are very much the same. If I want something fizzie someone way back mentioned drinking club soda or seltzer water with fruit juice added. Works well for me if I do not over do the fruit juice. It is not to bad to add to ice tea either
Matthew
Hi Matthew,
I believe that's Polly's recipe for the fruit juice. My problem is that it tastes so good, that sooner or later, I always wind up overdoing it, and the natural sugar in the fruit juice gets to me, at least that's what I assume happens. Sigh.
Wayne
I believe that's Polly's recipe for the fruit juice. My problem is that it tastes so good, that sooner or later, I always wind up overdoing it, and the natural sugar in the fruit juice gets to me, at least that's what I assume happens. Sigh.
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.
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I find it very interesting that some of you have these problems with sugars/grains. I consider myself lucky because I apparently don't have this problem even though I have tested positive for yeast intolerance at Enterolab.
Have any of you tried drinking mineral water? I once bought a bottle of it at the HF store and rather liked it - it is not sweet but it has soda/fizz. In addition it has some of the minerals that we try to get more of via our diet and/or supplements.
Is selzer or club soda the same as mineral water?
Love,
Karen
Have any of you tried drinking mineral water? I once bought a bottle of it at the HF store and rather liked it - it is not sweet but it has soda/fizz. In addition it has some of the minerals that we try to get more of via our diet and/or supplements.
Is selzer or club soda the same as mineral water?
Love,
Karen
Krogers sells the Health Valley root beer. I found Dads old fashioned rootbeer at a Fiesta store in Houston.. they also have Coke from Mexico that is supposed to have been made with real sugar. Have tried all of the above and not sure how well I tolerate them but at least they don't seem to cause D.. some bloating maybe tho and gas (of course).
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TendrTummy
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Wayne,
You may be right - the burning feeling was definitely my pain all day every day for a LONG time. And when I stopped drinking coke - gone. But I don't seem to react the same to any other complex sugars. I DO react, just not the same way. When I eat skittles, for example, I get a bloated feeling about an hour later, which lasts overnight usually, and ends in some D the next day, but then nothing. If I drink coke, like you said, burning/aching for days and days. Even makes all of my joints feel sore. Absolutely insane!!!! Can you imagine ONE little drink that can screw us up so much?
I have some recipes for some drinks in my multiple-intolerant recipe book. I'll have to look thru those. We were thinking perhaps we could just make some rootbeer ourselves because the ingredients they'd used are pretty easy to find. We could simply leave out the carmel color, if we wanted. We'll see what happens. I have ideas but I'm lazy ;)
Christine
You may be right - the burning feeling was definitely my pain all day every day for a LONG time. And when I stopped drinking coke - gone. But I don't seem to react the same to any other complex sugars. I DO react, just not the same way. When I eat skittles, for example, I get a bloated feeling about an hour later, which lasts overnight usually, and ends in some D the next day, but then nothing. If I drink coke, like you said, burning/aching for days and days. Even makes all of my joints feel sore. Absolutely insane!!!! Can you imagine ONE little drink that can screw us up so much?
I have some recipes for some drinks in my multiple-intolerant recipe book. I'll have to look thru those. We were thinking perhaps we could just make some rootbeer ourselves because the ingredients they'd used are pretty easy to find. We could simply leave out the carmel color, if we wanted. We'll see what happens. I have ideas but I'm lazy ;)
Christine