Re: Re: lucuma - any experience/information?

[Guest guest]

At 06:23 PM 3/1/2010, you wrote:

SO, given the above, what are

your thoughts? I do not see a really clear-cut answer. Sorry to persist

with this, but its really great to be able to discuss this with others so

knowledgable in the ways of SCD.

My question -- and I admit I have not had a chance to go through all the

links provided -- is, why do you want to use this? And what for?

—

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 05:03 AM 3/2/2010, you wrote:

Well! I can think of a few uses

off the top of my head, but I admit I haven't yet given it exhaustive

thought. I'd love to use it for the maple syrup flavour (I'm a Canadian

living in the UK, pining for dark maple syrup), and that it seems to be

quite widely used as an addition to ice cream (I can't tolerate dairy now

so I'm going to start experimenting with nut milk ice cream this summer).

And because I have always been epicurious!

<grin> I'm not Canadian, but a Canadian friend said I probably knew

more about Canada (and the Canadian Rockies) than 90% of Canadians,

including some who live in the Rockies.

I can understand the craving for maple syrup, which, alas, is not

legal.

My suspicion is that lacuna may fall in the same category as date sugar,

which is basically dried, ground dates. It's dried, ground

lacuna.

And the word on that is:

Date sugar * Illegal * May be tried after

being on the diet for quite sometime and symptom free but it is not

recommended.

So I think this might be something you could, potentially, look forward

to when you have healed, but it's definitely not something to have in the

early days on the diet.

I'll try to get a chance to look at the links you provided. I'll

acknowledge that it looks interesting. But if it is legal, I think it

would be very advanced. Plus, you have to look at your sources and

whether or not there are free-flowing agents (like sugar alcohols, which

are illegal) and or processing aids which don't have to be listed under

the ingredients, but can still (like corn starch dusted on

otherwise-legal sliced meats) make the entire product illegal.

I did find

http://www.lucumafruit.com/lucuma_nutrition.html which tells us that,

like other fruits, lucuma has significant carbs -- but it does not tell

us what those carbs ARE.

We know that many fruits contain carbs which, as stand-alones, are not

legal, but as part of a whole fruit are just fine. On the other hand, we

have the example of the illegal plantain and the legal banana which

resemble each other. And even the legal banana is not legal if it is not

ripe.

Definitely more research needed! (It is not, FYI, listed in the USDA

nutritional break-down database.)

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund