Sometimes certain foods cause heartburn, bloating, diarrhea, or other intestinal symptoms. If you are know you are allergic to certain allergens then one should be careful to avoid other foods that are part of its family.
Sometimes certain foods cause heartburn, bloating, diarrhea, or other intestinal symptoms.
Listed below are common food cross-reactors:
Ragweed Pollen:
Fruits: cantaloupe (and some other melons), honeydew, banana, watermelon
Vegetables: cucumber, zucchini;
other: chamomile or camomile tea, sunflower seed;
Grass Pollen:
Fruits: cherry, kiwi, melon, oranges, tomato, watermelon;
Vegetables: beans, celery, green peas, potato;
Other: peanut;
Birch Pollen:
Fruits: apples (properly cooking the apples helps might remove allergens), apricots, nectarines, peach, pear, cherry, plum, kiwi, wheat, buckwheat, tomato;
Vegetables: carrots, celery, peas, potato peel;
Herbs: fennel, anise, caraway, coriander, cumin, dill, fennel, parsley, honey;
Other: almond, hazelnut, peanuts, walnut, sunflower seed
Mugwort Sage:
Fruits: melon, watermelon, apple;
Vegetables: Celery, carrot;
Herbs: spices, chamomile, anise, fennel, coriander, cumin;
Other: hazelnut;
Latex:
Fruit: apple, banana, celery, cherry, kiwi fruit, mango, strawberry;
Vegetables: carrot, eggplant, papaya, pineapple, potato, tomato;
Herbs: paprika;
Other: avocado, chestnut,
coconut, wheat
Peanuts: grass, wheat, corn. Legumes are beans (black beans, bean sprouts, soy, lentils etc.), peas (chick peas, snow peas) and peanuts.
Plaintains: melon