Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Well, still not making sense

You need IF, so you should not remove it all from your diet. How you keep it in there depends on your individual tolerance.

There is a world of difference between the effects of peeling and seeding and the effects of cooking, chopping, dicing, and pureeing. The former actually removes IF, the latter merely alters it. All we need consider here is the effect of peeling and seeding.

Some fruits and vegetables either must be peeled/seeded (oranges) or cannot be peeled/seeded (broccoli). The only decisions to be made here are whether to eat them and, if so, whether to cook, chop, dice, puree. Doing so or not doing so will not alter the amount of IF. There is nothing further to consider here.

Therefore, all we need to consider further are fruits and vegetables where you can choose between eating them with peels/seeds and eating them without. There are two types of these foods to consider:

First, there are foods that, when peeled and seeded, contain only or mostly SF. Example: nectarines. If you can tolerate eating a whole raw unpeeled nectarine, you should do so. If not, then you must cook, chop, dice, puree it with its skin on to make it digestible and still count as IF. If you peel it, you cannot count it as IF anymore.

Second, there are foods that, when peeled and seeded, are still only or mostly IF. I can only think of two examples: tomatoes and cucumbers. If you can tolerate eating these with peels and seeds, you should do so to get maxium IF. If not, you can peel and/or seed them and still count them as IF.

HTH.

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