"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>> On Sunday, July 19, 2015 at 5:38:24 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>>> "Cindy Hamilton" > wrote in message
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>>> > On Saturday, July 18, 2015 at 4:06:32 PM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
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>>> >> Pineapple makes my mouth raw.
>>> >
>>> > Probably not an allergy, but the bromelin in the pineapple
>>> > tenderizing your tissues. Fresh pineapple gives me a bit
>>> > of a sore throat, but canned doesn't. Heating denatures
>>> > the bromelin enzyme, which is why fresh pineapple keeps
>>> > gelatin from setting, but canned does not.
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>>> I only eat canned. That is interesting though. If I cook with it, I
>>> don't
>>> have a problem. I only get a problem if I eat it cold from the can. I
>>> know it gets heated when it is canned but that doesn't help.
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>> Well, maybe you do have an unusual difficulty with pineapple. Seems odd
>> that canning is insufficient, but additional cooking makes it ok. I
>> always
>> think of canned food as "it's as cooked as it can possibly be".
>> Well, everybody's different.
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> I'd never thought of it as allergy/intolerance. I just steered clear of
> it 'uncooked' (by me)

I hadn't thought of the bromelain but that makes me really ill. Some years
ago I bought some digestive supplements at the health food store and told
the owner that I could not have bromelain. I had tried something else on my
own and it didn't set well.

She wound up selling me the wrong kind and I knew it as soon as I started
burping. It was near constant and lasted all night. Stomach pains too.
Thankfully she took them back and gave me the right ones.