Re: Newbie Question - Juicing??
07/19/06 02:16 PM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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The problem with juices is fructose. You may be okay juicing vegetables - I'm not sure how much fructose you get in vegetable juice - but fruits will be a problem. Fructose can be an IBS trigger:
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Fructose, a fruit sugar, can cause gas, bloating, and diarrhea (this is typically not true for sucrose, or plain table sugar). Honey contains fairly high amounts of fructose. Fruit juices, particularly apple and grape juice, are often sky high in fructose and even more problematic than whole fresh fruit. It's simply much easier and faster to drink a large glass of juice (and ingest a great deal of fructose) than to eat an equivalent amount of whole fruit. So treat juices as you would insoluble fiber and drink them carefully, with soluble fiber foods.
From: http://www.helpforibs.com/diet/fiber2.asp
Also, although Insoluble Fiber can be an IBS trigger, you really do need it for general health and, if you're IBS-C, you need it to resolve the C. I suggest you make sure to lay down a good SF base, then try fruits and vegetables carefully - peeled, chopped, cooked, and/or pureed. Or try smoothies to get fruits down you relatively safely.
HTH.
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