Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: What are your favorite SAFE fruits and veggies to eat?

It's not so much a question of what is safe to eat, but what your food supply is, how you prepare it and what you eat it in combination with.

Personally I recommend organic fruit and veggies. The safest way is for them to be prepared is peeled, seeds removed (where possible) and cooked. The safest way for them to be eaten is with a soluble fibre staple like potatoes, white flour bread or white rice (preferably white basmati rice).

Clearly some produce is not safe no matter how you prepare it or in what combination you eat it. So I would stay away from things like cabbage, brocolli, brussel sprouts, etc. Certain fruits are bad news too like peaches, plums and pears.

Of the safer fruits and veggies, I recommend (if you don't have time to properly prepare it) to purchase babyfood so that it's already pureed and cooked for you. The best brand I've ever found (and it's not organic, but it's GREAT) is Beech Nut babyfood (www.beechnut.com) made in the U.S. I think it might be available at Albertson's in the U.S. It's available here in Canada at Loblaws stores.

Just check ingredients to ensure nothing extra is added.

I often eat Beech Nut apple/blueberry sauce, Dutch apple or apples/bananas on toast in the morning. It's a great jam substitute (with no added sugar or artificial sweetener) and you get some fruit into your diet at the same time.

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