Honey issues

[Guest guest]

Several of you mention using honey in various sweets including lemon curd. However, I have always had problems with combining honey and lemon juice and sometimes have problems using honey in cooking other sweets, too, and lately, I'm just burnt out on it. It makes my tongue hurt and then I get sick to my stomach and just feel yucky. Does anyone else here have problems like this? I was thinking that I might start making my sweets with dates instead of honey. Are there drawbacks to doing this? I don't hear much about using dates for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Could it be the honey I use? I can see through it, but it does have color. I try to use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself to possible allergens that are local.

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

Several of you mention using honey in various sweets including lemon curd. However, I have always had problems with combining honey and lemon juice and sometimes have problems using honey in cooking other sweets, too, and lately, I'm just burnt out on it. It makes my tongue hurt and then I get sick to my stomach and just feel yucky. Does anyone else here have problems like this? I was thinking that I might start making my sweets with dates instead of honey. Are there drawbacks to doing this? I don't hear much about using dates for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Could it be the honey I use? I can see through it, but it does have color. I try to use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself to possible allergens that are local.

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

At 06:59 PM 3/4/2010, you wrote:

I don't hear much about using

dates for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Dates are legal. I would probably be careful about how many I ate. I use

dates for sweetening things from time to time, and in fact, one of my

favorite sweet snacks is a Medjool date stuffed with 2-3 pecan

halves.

Could it be the honey I

use? I can see through it, but it does have color. I try to

use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself to possible

allergens that are local.

In the early stages of SCD, you might do better with the filtered honey.

I like local honey, too, for the very reason you cite, but have found

that if my system's being ornery, I do better with filtered and

paseurized.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

At 06:59 PM 3/4/2010, you wrote:

I don't hear much about using

dates for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Dates are legal. I would probably be careful about how many I ate. I use

dates for sweetening things from time to time, and in fact, one of my

favorite sweet snacks is a Medjool date stuffed with 2-3 pecan

halves.

Could it be the honey I

use? I can see through it, but it does have color. I try to

use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself to possible

allergens that are local.

In the early stages of SCD, you might do better with the filtered honey.

I like local honey, too, for the very reason you cite, but have found

that if my system's being ornery, I do better with filtered and

paseurized.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

I

have pancreas issues in the mix (have Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, meaning

upper GI works very marginally) and honey can trigger all kinds of symptoms,

not just digestive. Fruit does the same, which is why I have to sneak fruit

into my menu once or twice a day at the most [grin]. I didn’t touch

honey for the first four years on SCD. Instead, I used applesauce or

peachsauce, or diluted fruit juice, to add some sweetness to my nut flour

muffins. I just increased the amount of nut flour I used in the batter.

Now,

at six years on SCD with a more stable upper GI, I can tolerate a small amount

of honey in my nut flour muffins – but I can’t have honey plain,

all by itself. I can’t lick the spoon I use to put honey into my

nut flour muffin batters, for example. Triggers a cascade of symptoms that I

want to avoid. It’s just the way my body works.

I

eat well on those foods my body does tolerate. So I don’t miss

using honey.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years

neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It

makes my tongue hurt and then I get sick to my stomach and just feel

yucky. Does anyone else here have problems like this? I was

thinking that I might start making my sweets with dates instead of honey.

Are there drawbacks to doing this? I don't hear much about using dates

for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Could it be the honey I use? I can see through it, but it does have

color. I try to use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself

to possible allergens that are local.

Thanks!

[Guest guest]

I

have pancreas issues in the mix (have Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction, meaning

upper GI works very marginally) and honey can trigger all kinds of symptoms,

not just digestive. Fruit does the same, which is why I have to sneak fruit

into my menu once or twice a day at the most [grin]. I didn’t touch

honey for the first four years on SCD. Instead, I used applesauce or

peachsauce, or diluted fruit juice, to add some sweetness to my nut flour

muffins. I just increased the amount of nut flour I used in the batter.

Now,

at six years on SCD with a more stable upper GI, I can tolerate a small amount

of honey in my nut flour muffins – but I can’t have honey plain,

all by itself. I can’t lick the spoon I use to put honey into my

nut flour muffin batters, for example. Triggers a cascade of symptoms that I

want to avoid. It’s just the way my body works.

I

eat well on those foods my body does tolerate. So I don’t miss

using honey.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years

neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

It

makes my tongue hurt and then I get sick to my stomach and just feel

yucky. Does anyone else here have problems like this? I was

thinking that I might start making my sweets with dates instead of honey.

Are there drawbacks to doing this? I don't hear much about using dates

for sweetener instead of honey. Why not?

Could it be the honey I use? I can see through it, but it does have

color. I try to use local and raw as much as possible to acclimate myself

to possible allergens that are local.

Thanks!