Processed carbs and diarrhea

[Georgepds]

Processed carbs and diarrhea

Anybody else have this problem?

Last night was a party night, main course was paella ( lots of rice), and one of the guests bought cheesecake for dessert... I'm paying the price today

I don't seem to have the problem with high fiber foods like apples or green peas

Could use a big clue before I poop my guts out again

 

[southernlady]

Processing certainly makes mine more problematic, esp in the early years. Example: bread. Store bought would tear me up but if I made my own, it wasn’t an issue.

 

[Munchkin]

My guts have never met a carb they didn't like. Processed or not!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I can eat ACTUAL, REAL, NO-YEAST-ADDED, just sourdough starter, bread. Also, conservative servings of Dreamfield Pasta...which adds something to prevent carb absorption, I think. And gluten-free ANY worthless snack foods. (Gluten-free cookies and donuts and cake are FULL of carbs and do not cause me any poop problems.). (Unfortunately.). I can eat corn tortillas, not flour.

Anyway, all that stuff is muy carby. In a standard paella recipe, nothing would bother me. But if bread was served...or if I ate the (usually graham cracker) crust ( which I usually eat around even though I love that part), I would have had problems...generally...bloating, gas and diarrhea.

So, YMMV.

 

[southernlady]

Also, conservative servings of Dreamfield Pasta...which adds something to prevent carb absorption, I think.

That’s been disproven. They say they do but it’s all hocus pocus. Not worth the cost. However, if you prefer it over regular pasta, no harm done. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2014/05/12/328888.htm

 

[Spiky Bugger]

That’s been disproven. They say they do but it’s all hocus pocus. Not worth the cost. However, if you prefer it over regular pasta, no harm done. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2014/05/12/328888.htm

Well that’s disappointing!

I wonder why, other than placebo effect, it doesn’t bloat me up like regular pasta. I THOUGHT I found an explanation here...https://www.dietdoctor.com/the-dreamfields-pasta-fraud where he griped about how long it took
for his numbers to decrease.

But the other studies showed identical times b/t regular pasta and Dreamfield. Hmm. Maybe I can ask MiniSue to fix me some pasta and not tell me which kind she used. Blind taste test kind of thing. At local Italian restaurants, I order the gluten-free pasta dishes...but there are limited selections and it’s always penne.

Anyway, thanks for the info...you maybe saved me some money!

 

[Charris]

My guts have never met a carb they didn't like. Processed or not!

Ditto

 

[DianaCox]

Something I ate on this last trip - I think a small serving of rice - blew me up like a balloon. YMMV - daily.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Something I ate on this last trip - I think a small service of rice - blew me up like a balloon. YMMV - daily.

We are so strange. I have zero problems with rice.

 

[southernlady]

Something I ate on this last trip - I think a small serving of rice - blew me up like a balloon. YMMV - daily.

I WISH I had problems with rice. Other than my blood sugar which doesn’t stop me, just slows me down.

 

[DianaCox]

I usually don’t. I ate it with a mildly spicy African chicken, coconut and peanut curry. But I’m convinced it was the rice. It may have been a different kind of rice? I was also at 7200’ altitude in Santa Fe.

 

[southernlady]

Had you had the “mildly spicy African chicken, coconut and peanut curry” without rice before?

 

[DianaCox]

No - and I realize it makes more sense that it was something else in the food, but I’ve occasionally had bad bloat from rice and it was like that. Most of the time, a small serving of rice is OK, but a lot can be deadly.

 

[southernlady]

Or maybe a combination of all those.

 

[hilary1617]

I have no impact from carbs. Milk (lactose), on the other hand, is the devil.