Safe vs Unsafe concise list

[claudiarivas]

Hello!!! I want to share this excellent list that KATIE was kind enough to make and send it to me... because I think it is excellent and could be of help

SAFE FOODS:
- Extra Virgin live Oil
- White Rice
- Savoy Cabbage with the veins and stalks removed
- Yokon Potatoes
- Collard Greens with veins and stalks removed
- Roasted seaweed snacks (traders Joes natural grocer)
- Seaweed
- Snyders fo Hanover brand gluten free pretzel sticks
- Pure Basmati rice - DONT buy "doesn't stick" kind because they add sugar to prevent sticking
- Rice Bran Oil
- Corn starch
- Plain Hummus in moderation
- Lemonnaise - alternative to mayonaise found at a grocer called "Whole Foods" in the states.
- Yellow mustard
- Chicken broth requires you to boil a whole chicken, stroe bought broth is unsafe
- Barilla brand angel hair pasta
- Kirkoman brand soy sauce - NO other soy products allowed
- Small amounts of cornmeal
- Chewing gum - www.tundratrading.com to buy xylichew gum for when he is older and wants gum=)
- Rice Flour
- Shredded wheat cereal Plain
- Puffed rice cereal
- Puffed wheat ceral *** We tried this with Bram but he began to vomit small amounts, like spitting up. Once we stopped giving him this cereal the vommiting stopped. Good examlpe of a reaction to a food.
- Cream of Wheat cereal
- Plain Grits
- Jiffy brand baking mix -You can make waffles, pancakes and biscuits with this mix.
- Unsweetened oatmeal
- Plain yogurt
- Green Olives
- Pickles
- Basil
- Homemade mac and cheese
- Betty Crocker brand pizza crust

UNSAFE FOODS:
- Canola Oil
- Soy Oil
- Brown Rice
- Onions of ANY kind
- Green peas
- White cabbage
- Pumpkin
- Garlic - powder, salt or fresh
- Cinnamon
- Cocoa
- New or Baby potatoes
- Yellow felshed or waxy potatoes
- Onion powder or onion salt
- Soya Oil
- Coconut - meat or oil
- Frozen French Fries (companies dip the fries in a solution with sugar to make them brown quicker! yuck!)
- Balsamic Vinegar
- Brown Rice Flour
- Brown Rice Syrup
- Asparagus
- Paprika
- Rice Wine Vinegar
- Soybean Oil
- High fructose corn syrup due to contamination( In the states the FDA does not require food corps. to include added sugar to HFCS up to a certain amount, any amount of added sugar would harm our kids so it's a no.)
- Corn syrup solids
- Corn
-Peanuts
-Peanut butter, even sugar free kind
- Bouillon
- Anything listed as "Whole Grain"
- Green Peppers
- Corn oil
- Corn Flour
- Canned tuna - even if it's in water because the companies add veggie broth to the water.
- Most bagels
- All Beans
- Soy beans and Tofu may be okay but have to try and watch for reactions

Other Info:
- ALL beans have fructose
- HFI'ers get very bad breath when they eat fructose
- Anything that states "Artificial Flavors" or "Natural Flavors added" means Fructose has been added - NOT safe
- Check the ingredients on "Safe" foods regualrly becuase the companies can change the ingredients
- Check ingredients for sugar OR syrup
- HFI'ers may binge eat after high impact excercise because the body goes into hypoglycemic shock - not in babies and toddlers.
- Excercise causes HFI'ers to be very sleepy.

[colormist]

Watch the pickles. I've seen a few brands that add a sweetener to the brine.

[jennifer]

I am surprised to see canola oil on the unsafe list, is canola oil not ok? We have been using it without problems.

[ukbill]

I just do not feel well after eating a meal cooked in it.. get a bad gut reaction like with soy oil..

Funny thing is I uses oil in the UK marked up as "rape seed oil" which I have no problems with at all.

According to Wikki, Canola oil is the same thing, oil made from the seed of a variety of cabbage.

If I buy (expensive) Canola oil in the UK I feel really bad and also I have found the same with Canola Oil in Australia.. I am assuming its all in the processing.. because the Canola oil always looks to be more "natural" in a mucky less refined sort of way if you get my drift?

I know when we started growing oil seed rape in the UK and Europe we were growing a variety which was basically mustard seeds (the same family of plants as cabbage)

These still contained a lot of the "hot" oils and chemicals that make mustard so interesting to us to eat.. however it made the oil and the resulting powdered meal, after crushing, far too bitter to use and the powdered remains of the seeds after processing to remove the oil were too bitter to add to animal feed at a rate of more than 10%.

On a completely different note it was this that indirectly caused the problems we had with BSE where the cows brains rotted.. (an the occasional human who ate infected cows) but I will not go into that here

In short I think there are further refining processes which remove the things that make me feel bad between Canola oil and Rape seed oil.

It is not just me that has problems with Canola oil I have heard from others who also get problems with it too.

[ukbill]

I also do not have a problem with Cinnamon.. however I use whole Cinnamon bark and fish out the bits of "wood" form my meal rather than using the ground powdered stuff which can hide all sorts of extra additives and "natural flavorings"

I have a variety of rice wine vinegar that seems to be safe as well.

I bet the "reaction to puffed wheat cereal was form contamination at the packaging plant I have eaten it all my life in the UK with no problems.

I do not have a problem with most varieties of dry or fresh ready to cook pasta that is available in both the UK and Australia.. or the parts of Europe where I have traveled and eaten food.

If this is to be an ULTRA safe list then I would remove any potatoes Unless they are peeled cut into smallish cubes and soaked in water for an hour or more with a water change or 2 before cooking to allow the maximum of the Fructose to leach out into the water and be discarded.

I believe all rice in the USA has a coating added to it.. so I would wash the rice very well, before use and may be dual cook it.. IE par boil it in lots of water then change the water and cook till soft.

NOT all Kirkoman soy is safe.. only the normal stuff is the "low Salt " version has added sugar in the UK and Australia.

To the above list I would add
White wheat flour, (plain and self raising)
Eggs
Cheese
Sunfower oil
Butter
Black olives
Fresh fish, sea and fresh water
Prawns and other shell fish
Floppy leaf varieties of lettuce (in moderation)
Watercress (in moderation.. 250g is too much.. not for the HFI but my guts cannot take it! possibly too much digestible fiber?)
Mustard and cress (which is usually mustard seeds and rape seeds sprouted in a growing medium.
Herbs, Basil, Bay, Thyme, Marjoram, Parsley, Sage, Oregano. etc
Spices (because they are used in tiny amounts the Fructose load is tolerated by most of us with HFI)
Cumin, Coriander, Chili (particularly home made Chili oil), Star Anise, Cloves, Nutmeg, Fennel & Dill seeds, Celery seeds, etc...

[shereebailey83]

ukbill i must have a very similar tolerance to you i think, i found the comment about canola oil quite interesting as i never thought i had a problem but now i think about it there is a good chance it could explain some severe stomach aches i've had the last few days so i will watch that - also, i find paprika fine, garlic in small amounts fine, i use cacao instead of cocao as it has next to no sugar in it, cinnamon, brown rice and tune in springwater are all okay for me, however potato's and pickles are a no no for me... i think its a good list but i also think it is very very hard to write a safe and non safe list as it seems every individual has a different tolerance level but its a good reference for those who have just been diagnosed

[ukbill]

I think a lot of what we can individually "tolerate" is from learned experience.

Some people can eat avocado's.. i would LOVE to eat them but seem to get a reaction every time.

Now this might be largely phyosomatic (spellt wrong sorry spell checker is pants today! As is my spelling )

I.E. I expect to get ill so I do.

Likewise if I was used to eating them then I might well have the opposite where I actually get a slight reaction but because I think they are OK I will not "notice" it.

Mostly because it has insufficient Fructose in it to fire off a full blown reaction.. and this might be further hidden by the positive effects of other foods being eaten at the same time.

This I believe is why we with HFI "appear" to be able to tolerate different amounts of fructose.

I certainly used to eat far, Far more Fructose than I do now and thought I was fine!

Since I have gone down to a much lower level of Fructose intake I really feel much better and have very few occasions when I go Hypo even with excises!

I can go for days with little to no food without a problem, and missing a meal is now definitely not something I worry about or even care.

This week I had 2 and a half very long and stressful days and I survived on one plate of fish and chips, one plate of a rice / sausage stir fry and a bag of plain potato crisps and a little piece of cheese.

All in all about 1/4 the caloric intake I would usually have, yes I felt a little hungry but not too "low" at all.

The Oil thing is unusual I do not know why Soy oil in particular causes a problem and why UK sourced Rape seed oil is fine but Canola oil is not, particularly the stuff I bought in Australia.

There is a possibility it could be due to the different flora in our gut from "normal none HFI" people.

Perhaps one day it will be explained.. but I'm not holding my breath waiting.. (sorry Tammy )

Keep smiling

[ukbill]

I have never had a problem with tinned (in water) Chinese water chestnuts and Bamboo shoots, I can also manage a few Baby sweet corn but been as this is a concise list of VERY safe HFI foods then take them on advisement..

The Tinned Chinese "Straw" mushrooms (small round items) are also good to eat.

Unfortunately I cannot manage bean sprouts but a passable Chow Mien can be made with noodles and no bean sprouts

I also do not have a problem with cayenne pepper or very small amounts of chilli.

Enjoy