Re: Re: butternut squash on SCD -- was cocoa butter

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Cecilia

What makes butternut squash allowed on SCD, and potatoes not allowed, is the type of sugars/carbohydrates each contain. Butternut squashes are monosaccharides; potatoes are polysaccharides. SCD is all about eating foods that are monosaccharides, or simple carbohydrates/sugars. Elaine allows a few foods that are polysaccharides (like legumes), but ranks them in the advanced category, with the warning that not everyone can handle them.

But some of us have digestions that aren't up to handling butternut squash, or other winter squashes or other allowed SCD foods. My body doesn't handle winter squashes at all, even after 5 years on SCD.

So I don't eat butternut squash. There are many legals I just can't eat. But I do very well with those that I can eat successfully. And my digestion has improved the longer I've been on SCD, so I'm able to eat a few foods now that I couldn't two years ago.

Kim M.

SCD 5 years

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....... I am confused about starch. I tried butternut squash again and it turned my guts into concrete again. I looked it up on the net and it is a very starchy vegetable. Why is it allowed on the SCD diet when sweet potatoes are not? This is a queston I would like to ask.Cecilia

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>What makes butternut squash allowed on SCD, and potatoes not allowed, is

>the type of sugars/carbohydrates each contain. Butternut squashes are

>monosaccharides; potatoes are polysaccharides. <

Thanks. It is called starchy in litterature and starchy means with

polysaccharides, so it is very confusing. I found an article by Elaine G

that I thought was good

http://www.consumerhealth.org/articles/display.cfm?ID=20060301174333

at the end she says:

" We use butternut squash, acorn squash with a bit of honey and butter, and

the squash has a completely different molecular structure to the starchy

potatoes. "

Cecilia