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Post by nicoleh on Apr 4, 2013 23:19:01 GMT -5
I can't believe it! Finally some good news on finding fructose levels in things (I've been struggling here!) www.food.com - if you search for whatever you're looking for (by ingredient, recipe name etc. Then click 'narrow your search', then scroll down, looking at the left hand side, you'll see a nutrition box. you can select fructose (or sucrose) from the drop down menu, and put however many g in the box, and click 'less than'. I've tried it with 1g, and it works, but haven't tried zero. it rates it by amount per serving, not for the whole recipe. it also doesn't count sucrose towards the fructose amount, from what I can see. Once you click on the link for any recipe, there is a nutrition information panel on the right side. at the bottom of it you can click "detailed nutrition information" and the table that comes up from there has fructose and sucrose listed, by ingredient, and a total. Hope that helps someone! Nicole |
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Post by charlie on Apr 5, 2013 6:49:10 GMT -5
There are two very good websites with fructose breakdown which seem very accurate and do specific foods that you may find easier. www.nutritiondata.com you use nutrient tool and then you can build up lists of foods high in fructose, sucrose, glucose and starch in each food group. I spent hours printing out various lists and can use those as an instant checker whenever I plan meals now. Also finelli: www.fineli.fi/?lang=eng |
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Post by nicoleh on Apr 7, 2013 21:21:14 GMT -5
Thanks Charlie, I had a bit of trouble using nutritiondata and hadn't heard of the other one. will take a look.
The thing I loved about food.com is that if I'm looking for a specific type of recipe I can filter out results based on fructose nad not have to scan through hundreds of unsuitable recipes. It's not perfect, but it's a decent starting point.
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Post by marie on Aug 28, 2013 3:19:10 GMT -5
Thank you so much for these links and the recipes! They have helped me so much! I have always known that I am fructose intolerant, and avoided those foods containing it that I knew of, but never felt quiet healthy all the time eating wheat and other sugars. I just recently found out that I have HFI and reading all these lists of foods to avoid was an eye opener to me. I could actually relate to what I have a natural dislike of everything I am told to avoid consuming. Thank you again for these links and it also is relieving to know that I am not the only one out here with HFI. Hope you take care.
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Post by ukbill on Aug 29, 2013 23:47:02 GMT -5
Marie you are not alone! Welcome to the site. Please let us know which country you are from and join us here to share your experiences so other people in your country / area can discover they too are not alone.  The beauty of the internet is people like us can link up and discuss things together and learn so much. Very few Doctors meet any or should I say recognise HFI when they meet it. with an incidence rate of approximately 1:10000 to 1:25000 most medical centers have no HFI people on their books. However in any small town or certainly a city there are quite often a lot of us.. living under the radar and suffering as well by not knowing what we can and cannot eat, and why we are ill all the time.  What ideally we need is for your Doctors to tell the other Doctors in your town or city they have an HFI on their books and to take on the other patents from the area so they can become a local area of excellence for Sugar related health problems. This is assuming your Doctors are willing to make the effort to help other HFI people and can see a need for it. I live in a town of 60,000 people so I know statistically there should be between 2 and 6 people with HFI in my town but I am the only one known and identified. This HFI is NOT a rare condition, as Genetic conditions go. HFI is very common as a genetic condition there are many many genetic conditions better known and of which the medical profession are well aware of. So it is our responsibility as HFI to make sure all the local Doctors surgery / medical practices are made aware of the condition. Some of these well known and researched conditions have an incidence ratio of less than 1:1000000! ie 10 x less than ours, many also have foundations spending vast amounts of cash on research and treatment, yet have far fewer people with the condition than we have with HFI! A big problem is in some country's the medical profession refuse to admit they have anyone with HFI I have heard quote from Doctors in Holland and Belgium saying "We don't get HFI in our country!" well of course they do! Genetic conditions like HFI knows no political boundaries or borders. We all need to get evangelical about HFI and start trying to get it more known to local Doctors / medical professionals. IF you do just you see how many more HFI people local to you suddenly appear.. and they will be as happy as you are now to know how to sort their lives out and stop hurting all the time. I drive a Taxi and when I am taking Doctors or nurses to work or home after their shifts I mention HFI and try to get them interested particularly if they are work in pediatric care of babies where failure to thrive is a common label given to HFI baby's Keep smiling and spread the word! |
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Post by Justin M on Sept 8, 2013 21:09:15 GMT -5
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Post by charlie on Sept 9, 2013 11:08:31 GMT -5
Thanks Justin,
I thought I had found all the relevant databases but that foodhealth one is a new one on me, and is UK based so hopefully nearer to the truth on what we eat. Will put it to the test though to see how accurate it seems to be against the others, did click quickly and it lists no fructose in peanuts which is not true according to other sources so will do a few other spot checks.
Nutritiondata and fineli are the main ones I use, they seem to be very accurate and comprehensive.
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Post by ronniebarker on Apr 1, 2015 10:55:13 GMT -5
Hi Nicole,
Yes, food.com is the best for recipe search! I am always searching there for the exact recipe, ingredients etc. Thanks for the info.
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