Reged: 12/13/04
Posts: 4490
Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
Quote: Unfortunately fructose tolerance is not something you can accumulate and spend at a later date.
If one has true fructose intolerance or fructose malabsorption, then no. If one simply has IBS, however, I believe problematic foods such as fructose, acidic foods, sulfurous foods, many of the irritants like alcohol and caffeine, and so on are largely interchangeable and cumulative. With the caveat, of course, that most people have something that just kills them no matter what - MSG for me.
My policy is to spend my gut's limited tolerance for things that annoy it as wisely as possible.
-------------------- [Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate. - Sandra Boynton]