Tell me about your experience with ORANGES
#322420 - 01/15/08 06:14 PM
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Jordy
Reged: 08/12/06
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Do they cause you any particularly problem for you? Can you eat them? Often?
Thanks....I know everyone is different, but I would just like some how y'all do with them.
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Pineapples and oranges both give me gas and heartburn. I assume because of the fructose. I could take or leave oranges but I love pineapple! 
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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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I love oranges and miss them.. heartburn and the acid in them kill my stomach! I would love a orange right now!
emmasmom
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Thank you Emmasmom and Erylin. I don't have heartburn, so maybe they are okay.
I am asking others to please, please, please share your experience. Okay, I'm begging, but I have no humility today. Just feel so tired of always hurting with this IBS.
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Actually
#322463 - 01/16/08 10:17 AM
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Jordy
Reged: 08/12/06
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Oranges are low in fructose. What fruits do you eat?
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IBS-C with pain and bloat
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Re: Actually
#322466 - 01/16/08 10:37 AM
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Erilyn
Reged: 11/14/07
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Loc: Beautiful British Columbia, Canada
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I always wondered about that. I can handle small oranges, like mandarins, but orange juice gives me terrible gas and heartburn! I guess the acid doesn't help.
Sometimes I can eat small amounts of fruit - like a plum, a kiwi, some green grapes (but not red ones), and I can usually eat some berries no problem. I've always been able to eat bananas (but they are low in fructose anyway).
My problem has always been worse with juices. Grape juice is AWFUL for me - it's worse than a laxative. It has always put me in the bathroom with horrible D. Certain blends of fruit punches give me problems too. I just stay away from juices altogether just because of my bad experiences. The stuff isn't exactly healthy for you anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter.
Sometimes I wonder if fructose is actually a problem for me - I'm 90% sure that it is, but it doesn't seem to make sense that I could eat a slice of apple pie without having any problems. Maybe there is a difference when the fruit is cooked? Or maybe I can only handle a certain threshold (which is why I can handle small fruits but not things like juice, which is concentrated).
Who knows... 
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IBS-A since age 12, and fructose sensitive; with the exception of my pregnancy, have been following Heather's diet since Nov. 19, 2007.
Taking 12g of Acacia per day. Relatively stable since March 2008!
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Re: Actually
#322470 - 01/16/08 11:20 AM
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Syl
Reged: 03/13/05
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Loc: SK, CANADA
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While most citrus fruits have equal amount of glucose and fructose some variety of oranges - like navel oranges - can have more than 3 grams of excess fructose per 100 grams.
Fruit juices are different than the whole fruit because the pulp, etc has been removed. This increases the amount of fructose per 100 grams in juices. So while you may be able to handle small servings of some fruits it is quite likely than you may not be able to handle fruit juices. Generally speaking fruit juices contain about twice as much fructose as glucose.
Fructose malabsorbers can have different fructose tolerance thresholds. Some people can handle a few grams of excess fructose while other cannot handle 1 gram.
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I do not eat a lot of fruit in the first place but I know that I have to be careful with oranges. If I am feeling well I can get by with it but there are other times, like right now, I would not even try it. Orange Juice is out though.
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Jordy, I just plain cannot eat them without getting awful gas and often D. The only fruit I can eat well is small amounts of berries, kiwi fruit and mangoes. I tolerate applesauce if its organic. I get away with small amounts of frozen peaches in lemonade or smoothies but not fresh peaches. Strangely enough I can tolerate lemon but of course I don't eat them--just the juice very diluted in water, etc.
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