Is Dried Fruit Dangerous?
#246653 - 02/16/06 05:00 AM
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cardshark
Reged: 01/29/06
Posts: 36
Loc: Phx, AZ
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I have been reading a lot about sulfites and sulfiting agents as preservatives lately. They are considered a trigger for IBS, along with MSG. I bought some dried mango the other day and had never bothered to read the package--figured it was just dried fruit and sugar! I had an attack later the night I ate it, and when I went back over what I ate, I realized by looking at package ingredients
that many of the snacks I ate that day had "sulfiting agents" or "sulfar"--which in itself sounds really bad! I can usually have an alcoholic drink every once in a while when I am stable, but wine has been bothering me lately--for the same reason. Most wine has sulfites in it as well for a preservative. Has anyone else experienced this with dried fruit? I am throwing mine out!
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*Janice*
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sulfites are nasty adn deadly for our sugar gliders and they eat as much of the dried fruits as I do if not more... dried fruit is also high in fructose so without a buffer not the greastest for IBS... though I seem to do ok with dried apples and mangoes due to SF content
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Dietetics Student (anticipating RD exam in Aug 2010)
IBS - A
Dairy Allergic
Fructose and MSG intollerant
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becomes 1) the sulfur (and I have also read it can be a trigger for IBS) and 2) dried fruit has high concentrations of fructose since a small piece contains the same as a whole fresh piece.
I've even been afraid to add some basalmic vinegars that list sulfites added as a preservative.  Are you okay with these other sulfite containing products?
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~ Beth
Constipation, pain prodominent,cramps, spasms and bloat!
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