Eggs have fructose in them?!

[evelyn]

Eggs make me feel good then my stomach starts feeling that certain way it does..like hunger but, it's not hunger..
I have suspected eggs a lot before but just read that they have fructose in them! Seriously? Do they really?
This is where I got that info from..is this valid info? nutritiondata.self.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/120/2

[colormist]

Yes. This was brought up recently on this forum. I've always been iffy about eggs. Not very fond of them. It didn't dawn on me that they could have fructose in them. I still eat them if they're cooked in things, but definitely not if they're the one of the main ingredients (like quiche or fritattas) .

[anastazya]

I can only eat egg whites. I have a problem with egg yolks. So I bet the yolk has the fructose.

[jen]

Eggs do not contain fructose.. Not all food has to be related with HFI. There is certain food that cant be tolerated for other reasons.

[jejns1]

Yes, eggs do contain fructose in the yolk.

[jen]

Yep I was wrong as I stated in another discussion. 1 egg (17 gr) contains 0.0119gr of fructose comparing to 1 ounce (28 gr) of coca cola which contains 0.902gr of fructose. I guess the question is how much fructose can someone with HFI handle without getting sick.

[hfimomof3]

I think one of the problems is we really don't know how much fructose someone with HFI ccan have without feeliing ill, and that it seems to be specific to that person, and it might even be specific to what their recent fructose load has been, as well as how healthy their liver is, and how sensitive their taste buds are. I know that if I have been exposed to sweet things for some reason (eg if I have been traveling and for some reason have no choice but to eat high-fructose foods such as airport food) then subsequent meals seem to taste sweeter to me, as if my sensitivity to fructose is heightened when my prior load is high.

[hfimomof3]

I was going to also say that we don't really know, biologically, why people with HFI dislike the taste of sugar so much. Yes, it makes us throw up, but what does that mean, in terms of biological signaling? That might help us figure out how our apparent tolerance of sweet foods relates to the objective concentration of fructose in those foods.

[charlie]

The body is using its natural defences and telling you the fructose is not good for your body, after all one of the longterm effects of ingesting fructose is liver or kidney failure and that is pretty terminal. By vomiting the body is getting rid of the "poison"

[colormist]

It definitely has to do with how much fructose you've had recently. Some days the thought of eggs makes me queasy and other days I'm dying for an egg & toast sandwich. It's really random, but I seem to avoid them more than I crave them.

[ukbill]

I agree my sensitivity used to go up an down a lot.

Now as I am understanding a lot more about the condition and adapting my diet to be ever more sugar free (and getting older actually helps as the background level of glucose in the blood rises as we get older! Way-hay one up for us oldies! ) I am getting very few occasions when my sensitivity changes.

Never had a problem with eggs but it could be down to the diet the hens are fed.

I used to work in animal feeds and know they are fed all sorts of waste food products blended and pelleted (including food colour to give a standard egg yoke colour!) to a standard analysis so the feed could have high levels of Fructose in it and some of that will carry through into the egg.

I only buy Free range eggs in the UK where a lot of the hens diet comes from scratching around a field.

Safer that way and I hate to think of hens in battery farms.. been there seen them don't like it.

[jdsmommy2009]

coolmist where at do you live and where the heck do you find bread that doesnt have sugars of wheat in them i havent yet to find not 1 that doesnt have sugar int hem
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[tikitavi]

I agree, UKBill, I think it does matter what they are fed. I noticed in the Fineli database that they say eggs have zero fructose, but they are much more likely to be allowed free range in Finland than in the USA. I get my eggs from my friend who free ranges them, and I don't generally have problems with eggs except for sometimes, which is probably when I've already had overmuch fructose from other foods.

[colormist]

Jdsmommy -- Sorry for the super-duper delayed response. Hopefully you've found bread by now. I live in the mid-west--currently in WV, but previously in Ohio and Michigan. I've managed to find bread pretty much everywhere except Walmart and Sam's Club. Try a smaller grocery that carries local goods or even a slightly higher end grocer, like Whole Foods, Kroger, Meijer, Giant Eagle. Most should have (what they call) artisan breads. They are usually uncut loafs. Read the ingredients on sourdough, rye, and french. These three are the least likely to contain fructose.

If you're looking for gluten-free as well, then I don't think I can help you. I still haven't found a bread that's both celiac-friendly and HFI-friendly in stores. I think you might be best off just making your own bread.