The Nightshades

[nex0s]

I went to Wikipedia and read about the nightshade family today. In particular, I read about solanine which is an active poison found in the entire Solanaeae family, but is at it's highest concentration in potatoes. It varies in amount, but potatoes are the first culprit, followed by eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers - but I can't figure out in what

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[pabsungenis]

If your yogurt drink bothered you, it might be casein after all, because yogurt contains enzymes that digest the small amount of lactose still in it for you. It's touted as the one bit of dairy lactose intolerant people can stand.

Still, it's good to hear you're narrowing down the culprits.

[nex0s]

This is the reason I suspect it's casein and not lactose :(

N.

[plymouth]

That doesn't seem to work for all people (or with all yogurts) - I'm definitely lactose-intolerant and I still need enzyme pills for most yogurts. Kefir, on the other hand, I can drink with no problems. Kefir uses different cultures than yogurt does and they seem to digest the lactose more thoroughly.

[la_directora]

I did a search today to see if I could find some more information, and came across this site about food allergies and intolerances. It seems to have some interesting information, as well as good suggestions about how to test for allergies and intolerances. It may be all old news to you, considering how much you've been putting into solving this problem. But I thought I'd pass it along in case there was something useful.

[nex0s]

Thank you! That was sweet of you!

I read Food Allergies & Intolerance - Their Idendification and treatment which pretty much covered everything :)

N.

[klingonlandlady]

luckily there are good substitute starches not in the nightshade family! (As i'm sure you know :) Sweet potatoes and yams, and even my little podunk supermarket has started carrying yucca and batata tubers. Breadfruit are yummy too if you can locate any in this hemisphere. All make good frites.

[micheinnz]

Just about any root vegetable makes good fries. Yucca chips are wonderful, too.

[moominmolly]

I don't have anything useful to say, really, nex0s, other than I understand on some level how annoying this is (having been through a version of it) and I'm happy you're narrowing in on your issues. But REALLY I'm just posting to say hey! nice icon! to micheinnz. :)

[la_directora]

I was thinking about this earlier, and had some of the same thoughts. Another thing I thought about is that I've heard of using carrots instead of tomatoes to make a red sauce when someone can't eat tomatoes. I don't have any specific recipes for it, but it would be interesting to experiment.

And I LOVE yams and sweet potatoes. They make tasty stuff. :)

[nex0s]

It took a lot of nightshades for me to get severely sick. I'm still working out how little I can consume and have it be OK.

N.