The general idea is that insoluble fiber foods are easier for the system to handle if they're broken down into the smallest bits possible. Whole and chopped nuts are just as safe as ground ones in terms of the food itself, but ground nuts would tend to be easier to digest. I chew my food well, and I use chopped nuts in recipes without any problems.
Peanut butter isn't "bad" either - it's just something to be careful of because of the fat content. Fat is a MAJOR trigger for IBS, and even "good fat" foods can cause problems. You can have peanut butter, but eat it sparingly. A lot of us do. Incidentally, nuts would have the same fat-content issue whether they're ground, chopped, or whole, so eat those carefully as well.
Dried fruits, in my mind at least, are insoluble fiber. I even treat soluble-fiber fruits like mango as IF once they're dried, because the moisture is gone and all that's left is the fibrous part - makes sense to me! Whether you're adding apricots to your trail mix or not, that trail mix needs to be eaten as insoluble fiber, with a good base of soluble fiber foods FIRST. If you're not doing that, that could be a reason why the apricots are having that effect on you. If you ARE, then it's possible that apricots are just too much fiber for your system to handle right now.
Hope that helps a bit!
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Re: I'm confounded by nuts and dried fruits
