Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Allergies...what I CAN'T eat!

Here's a list of everything I have had to exclude from my diet - be it uniquely because it has a bad effect on the gut, promotes inflammation or is an allergy or intolerance....(!!)
(I hope I can come back and edit this thing because I'll probably forget something!)

  • Wheat
  • Gluten, including trace gluten and ALL Grains...i.e:
  • Rice
  • Millet
  • Corn (maize)
  • Dairy including eggs
  • Sugar, honey and molasses any added sugar
  • Vegetable oils (so veg oil, sunflower, safflower, palm etc etc)
  • Yeast
  • Mushrooms
  • Soy (all soy products such as tofu, soy sauce, quorn etc)
  • Citrus fruit AND pineapple
  • Nightshade vegetables (Potatoes, Tomatoes, Aubergine, Peppers, Chili)
  • Most nuts (peanuts, cashews, hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts...and all derivatives like almond powder/paste/oil)
I think that's about it! At a glance it perhaps doesn't seem as complicated as the reality - for example,  no flour (wheat, rice, rye, spelt, millet etc), no wheat, bran, oats, barley,semolina, coucous, spelt, no bread basically, no pasta, no pastry, no added malt of any kind etc etc yawn yawn......! 
It also means no lentils or beans or pseudo cereals that carry the phrase "may contain traces of gluten" and, for me, it also means no rice or millet (which people generally consider gluten free) (IT IS NOT GLUTEN FREE)

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