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what food are you allergic/sensitive to.

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Dairy (any animal milk - cow, goat, etc. - casein, whey, and lactose)
Grains (Wheat/Gluten, Corn, Rice)
Sugarcane
Peanuts
Hot/black pepper(s)

Corn is probably the most annoying. Gives me a really bad headache, and it's hidden in everything and goes by a million names - corn syrup, HFCS, dextrose, citric acid, xanthan gum, etc. REALLY hard to avoid 100%.

It took me about 5 years to identify everything (even modern allergy tests are still not great for internal issues like asthma and congestion), but I feel so much better now I don't really care that much. I can't do any dairy or gluten at all, but the other stuff I have once in awhile and just deal with the pain. Like sugarcane - if I have stuff with sugar in it, I pass out for like three hours and just get super groggy. Not anywhere near diabetic, and can have other sugars, just overly sensitive to it. But as for the rest, I don't have migraines anymore, no more asthma or inhalers, no more ADD, etc. I mostly have to make everything from scratch and can only eat out at a few restaurants, unfortunately. I grill meat and veggies a lot now :|
 
richardycc said:
it's OAS - oral allergy syndrome. Google it.
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Wow, that fits most of my symptoms. Thanks.
Mine are
cherries
apples
nectarines
canteloupe
honeydew
sugar snap peas
persimmons

The apples, cherries, and nectarines are fine after heating.
Somehow I never tried heating up cants or honeydew, yuck. 😀
 
Well I have allergies to saffron.
/1st world problems.



Okay so it actually ties in with my environmental allergies to everything but still.
 
Crazy.. OAS would explain my reactions. Makes sense too. Fresh kiwi/jackfruit give me a reaction while canned/juiced (which I imagine is pasteurized?)/frozen/etc. don't.

Though it doesn't apply to peanuts for me. Cooked or not, I still get a reaction. Although peanut oil is fine for me.
 
Tuna makes me sick. Started after I got food poisoning when I was about 5. It happens even if the tuna is hidden in something else.

I developed a nasty reaction to alcohol in my mid-20's. I try a beer once a year to see if it has gone away. 20+ years and counting.

My stomach cannot tolerate Aspirin.

MotionMan
 
MotionMan said:
Tuna makes me sick. Started after I got food poisoning when I was about 5. It happens even if the tuna is hidden in something else.

I developed a nasty reaction to alcohol in my mid-20's. I try a beer once a year to see if it has gone away. 20+ years and counting.

My stomach cannot tolerate Aspirin.

MotionMan
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What happens when you drink?
 
highland145 said:
^^^Corn..that sucks.
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Yeah, and there's about 60 product names for corn, too. It's pretty ridiculous:

http://www.cornallergens.com/list/corn-allergen-list.php

I just always had a headache, vague sinus pressure, mildly upset stomach, acid reflux, etc. It wasn't ever anything bad like the migraines I got from dairy or the brain fog I got from gluten; it felt more like you feel right before you get sick, where you get that obscure pre-sick feel. So I just kind of felt "almost crummy" all the time. And then I'd take medicine and feel even more crummy, because most medicine has corn ingredients (everything from Tums to ibuprofen to IV drips made from dextrose, aka corn).

It's a huge pain, especially when I figured out what it was and had to learn about all the different product names. Plus all the stuff it's hidden in - citric acid in orange juice, HFCS in honey (bees are fed HFCS to speed up production, which gets passed into the honey product, which gives me a bad headache), etc. Basically corn is in everything, it's pretty shocking actually. There's a pretty good documentary that follows corn production into the food system called King Corn: (available on Netflix)

http://www.kingcorn.net/

It's a pretty random allergy. I only know like two other people who have it. One of them is as bad as me - can't have any trace of corn without feeling mildly crummy for a day or two. I basically have to make everything from scratch, or else deal with the annoying pain. On the flip side, my cooking abilities have greatly improved and I've done a lot of different things that I probably would have never done before - wok cooking, grilling, etc., so it's definitely expanded my food horizons. That and I went from feeling sick every day of my life for 20+ years to feeling great, so even though it's enormously annoying to deal with, having good health is totally worth it.

I'm curious to see if more people are going to develop corn allergies, because one reason that you develop an allergy is constant exposure - you eat it so often that you develop an allergy (especially common with wheat), and since everyone is eating it all the time with every meal. It's in our orange juice, our soda, our bread, chips, everything. It's like the food industry's magic bullet haha.
 
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I'm allergic to foods cooked with worn out wooden utensils on crusty cast iron skillets cooked over a wood fire in a toxic waste drum at 4 am.
 
Red Storm said:
Every single time I eat a Three Musketeers candy bar I throw up not long after. I've eaten them four times in my life now - all were bite sized versions - and every time I've become really sick and thrown up. I have no idea what it is in them that my body hates.
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Ingredients list:

MILK CHOCOLATE (SUGAR, CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, SKIM MILK, LACTOSE, MILKFAT, SOY LECITHIN), SUGAR, CORN SYRUP, HYDROGENATED PALM KERNEL OIL AND/OR PALM OIL, LESS THAN 2% - COCOA POWDER PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, SALT, EGG WHITES, ARTIFICIAL AND NATURAL FLAVORS.
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Possible allergens:

1. Dairy
2. Corn
3. Soy
4. Eggs
5. Flavorings

"Artificial & natural flavorings" is basically code for "poison chemicals" or "gross natural sources" haha. You can get away with using practically anything as a flavoring and totally hide it from the consumer. For example:

Beaver urine

Petroleum & Butane (like in blue Gatorade & Ramen noodles)

Wood (sawdust! haha)

Smashed bugs

How should you feel about this? I dunno. Companies are out to make a buck, and if it kills you sooner, they don't care (aside from losing your repeat business as a customer lol). But everyone is going to die sooner or later, so totally avoiding everything processed doesn't really make a lot of sense unless you have an allergic reaction to it or think it will make you live longer & healthier. But there's also the enjoyment & social aspects of food to think about as well. I mean, if I didn't have food allergies, I'd totally live off pizza & burgers like I used to 😀
 
If I eat to much wheat products, I have stomach issues.
My daughter turns pink with most soy products.
 
^mines not an allergy either, and this has never happened in a restaurant or sushi bar, but only have a bad record of getting sick (between 5 & 10 percent!) when I get supermarket sushi, go figure! I try not to do that anymore. HEB & Kroger. IDK why, the taste & quality doesn't seem that much lower than restaurants, but more than once I've gotten ill from it, never from a restaurant.
 
Supertaster - Bitter

So not an allergy but the following things are utterly repulsive:
Chocolate
Most alcohol
Arugula
 
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