Please help me with fruits...desperate!
#355164 - 02/02/10 07:32 AM
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Cyndy
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If I am constipated and in pain, what fruits are best for me to eat and which should I stay away from? I know everyone is different, but please share what fruits you are able to eat and how many per day. Please tell me if you are C or D? Please..... 
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Have you found that you have difficulties with some particular fruits? If yes, which one do you suspect are a problem?
If you have problems with high fructose corn syrup and honey then you might have difficulties with fruits that contain excess fructose (i.e more fructose than glucose). Up to 50% of IBSers have this problem. Fruits to avoid include mango, papaya, apples, cherries, dates, figs, grapes (black), guava, honeydew melon, lychee, nashi fruit, pears, persimmon, plumes, prunes, raisins, star fruit, sultana, quince, watermelon. Dried fruits and fruit compotes and juices/jams made of the above fruits in general.
Some safer fruits are kumquat, grapefruit, lemons, limes, bananas, blackberries, boysenberries, blueberries, cranberries, jack-fruit, kiwi, mandarins, oranges, passion fruit, pineapple, rhubarb, strawberries, raspberries, tamarillo, tangelo.
Careful of apricots, nectarines, peaches because they contain sorbitol which can cause problems for some IBSers.
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Ripe bananas, mangos, papayas, pineapple, and citrus are best IMO.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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....make constipatios and/or gas, bloating worse? That's why they put people on the BRAT diet for diarrhea? I am terrified of eating bananas, although I like them
Lately, I've been eating berries, papaya, oranges and canned peaches. I thought the cooked canned peaches would be okay since heating reduces the fructose. (I don't think I have a problem with fructose though) 
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It is great if you don't have a problem with fructose.  I sure miss the taste of sweet fruits. Cooking does not change the amount of fructose in a food. 
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I have prolbems with fruit and am c. I found that blueberries help with c. I make muffins and smoothies. hth
emmasmom
ibs-c gas
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I'm not sure if I am or I'm not.
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Thanks for your input, emmasmom!  I appreciate the help! Are blueberries the only fruit you eat? Do bananas constipate you? I'm so confused about bananas.
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I think the banana thing is open on another thread. Yes ripe ones can help you go and green ones definitely block everyone up! As for the BRAT diet being for D, I always thought it was more like food for digestive problems either way. Just really soothing, easy to digest food.
I find a lot of helpful info in talking to people without IBS, like my husband. Sometimes they really know exactly what certain foods do to them and if they have those issues we would have more. Most people get C from underripe bananas (also red meat, cheese).
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Quote:
Ripe bananas, mangos, papayas, pineapple, and citrus are best IMO.
Well...I get backed up A LOT.
So I guess I should eat more fruits.
However, I thought
1) Oranges and Pinneapples we had to avoid?
2) I can't handle bananas, don't know why. I can handle honeydew melons though.
-What fruits should I focus my diet on?
-Are CANNED fruits ok (this is MUCH easier for me)?
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IBS-D since 1999...mostly stable..i do cheat too.Bad me.
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Yes, but for canned/frozen is cheaper, easier, more convenient.
1) Are canned/frozen fine for our purposes?
2) Can I have a list of safe fruits/veges
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Fruits are much better than rye bread! yuck
There is no reason to avoid any fruit and almost any vegetable. My cautions are grapes and melons which tend to cause bloating. For IF fruit, citrus fruits are best. I have posted this list before but here goes.
Top to bottom safest to unsafest fruits:
(banana for some)
mango and papaya
canned peaches and applesauce
canned pears, oranges, grapefruit
berries, pineapple and kiwis
peaches, plums, nectarines
peeled apples and pears
grapes and melons (watermelon seems better than other melons)
That is not a scientific list! but just sort of my experience. There are other fruits too.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Prepared fruit isn't necessarily cheaper. Part of what you pay for is peeling and chopping. A pineapple costs $4 but you can get several servings out of it. I eat them so much I can cut one up in 60 seconds. 
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"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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bananas are the worse thing I can put in my body!The last attack i had was from one just half of one to. I eat peaches and strawberrys thats it for now. would love to have more choices. hth
emmasmom
ibs-c gas
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I eat can fruit I buy peaches that are in 100 percent juice. At first I use to get out the portion I wanted to eat then I would rise them off to get any juice off of them. and I even found can strawberrys that are good. I buy frozen fruit as well blueberries & strawberrys. hth
emmasmom
ibs-c gas
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.. then I recommend getting a breath test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose_malabsorption.
There`s no sense in limiting your intake of fructose if you don`t actually have malabsorption.
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