Re: legal cake causing bad reaction

[Guest guest]

Barb,It could have been that it was all at once. I have read that banana, apple, and honey are not recommended for those with yeast problems, so it could be that all mix into one cake at the same time may have just been over the top for your system.AmeliaTo: BTVC-SCD Sent: Wed, February 3, 2010

7:01:50 PMSubject: legal cake causing bad reaction

I made a cake from almond flour, bananas, apple, honey, olive oil, eggs, and walnuts. I don't get reactions (usually) to bananas, almonds, or honey but this is my first time using almond flour (ingredients on that just almonds). The cake gave me a bad candida reaction. I listed all the ingredients above. Does anyone know why this cake would cause this? There's just 2 oz. of honey in the whole thing. Could it be that baking raised the amount of sugar in the cake? Thanks.

Barb

[Guest guest]

Was it so good that you ate a lot of it? I mean, so you ingested more than you

usually would have of the fruit and honey?

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> I made a cake from almond flour, bananas, apple, honey, olive oil, eggs, and

walnuts. I don't get reactions (usually) to bananas, almonds, or honey but this

is my first time using almond flour (ingredients on that just almonds). The cake

gave me a bad candida reaction. I listed all the ingredients above. Does anyone

know why this cake would cause this? There's just 2 oz. of honey in the whole

thing. Could it be that baking raised the amount of sugar in the cake? Thanks.

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> Barb

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[Guest guest]

Barb

Nearly all of the ingredients listed in the cake are considered yeast "trigger" foods. Combined in one thing, and if you had more than one piece a day or had one piece every day over several days, it could easily cause a surge in yeast levels. And if your digestion couldn't completely breakdown one or more elements in the mix, then that can contribute to the yeast surge.

Remember that our digestions may not be ready for all of the permitted foods. Yes, the cake containes legal ingredients but that isn't a guarantee that your body can digest them or tolerate them -- or won't cause other symptoms if you're dealing with high yeast levels.

When I was dealing with my candida overgrowth I did make zucchini muffins using a mix of pecan and almond flour, but I didn't include honey or whole nuts. No apples, no bananas. And I had to limit the amount to one muffin every other day, sometimes every 3 days depending on my yeast-related symptoms.

My suggestion is that if you are dealing with high yeast levels, then you don't make this cake for a few months or until you don't notice any yeast-related symptoms. Then don't eat much at a time, and skip a few days in between servings, unless you've been yeast-overgrowth-free for a year or two.

Baking won't raise the sugar level, but the ingredients in this cake are high in sugar. Bananas, honey, apples all contain fairly high levels of sugar. And can be difficult to digest as well.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

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I made a cake from almond flour, bananas, apple, honey, olive oil, eggs, and walnuts. I don't get reactions (usually) to bananas, almonds, or honey but this is my first time using almond flour (ingredients on that just almonds). The cake gave me a bad candida reaction. I listed all the ingredients above. Does anyone know why this cake would cause this? There's just 2 oz. of honey in the whole thing. Could it be that baking raised the amount of sugar in the cake? Thanks.Barb