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Posted 7/1/2011 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
The other week I passed by a bag of plantain chips and after checking the ingredients I felt reasonably confident about buying them. I checked scdiet.org and found out that they are an approved food as long as there are no added sugars in the chips. Let me tell you that this opens up all sorts of opportunities for an SCDer craving a pre-processed crunchy snack. They taste similar to potato chips and work well with dips. I've been eating them with guacamole. I also recall a study published not that long ago that plantains have a protective effect on Crohn's patients in remission as the soluble fibers of the fruit help protect the gut from harmful bacteria.

I also hear that beet chips are a good snack, however, the only product on the market is a bag mixed in with sweet potato chips, an illegal.

Has anybody ever made homemade vegetable chips of any kind? I'd like to give it a shot sometime but would first need to invest in a food processor for the slicing.
Posted 7/1/2011 2:21 PM (GMT 0)
Plantains are illegal, sorry.

This is from the official SCD site  http://www.breakingtheviciouscycle.info/legal/legal_illegal_o-s.htm

If SCD.org is saying differnt you might want to let them know.

However, I am almost positve there is a chip recipe in The SCD Cookbook by something like Prasad Ramon.

I would tell you but I do not have book in front of me.

Plantains Illegal They contain too much starch
Posted 7/1/2011 3:49 PM (GMT 0)
Dave, the information on scdiet.org came directly from Elaine Gottschall from a question posed to her on the old listserv. Her reply was the following:

"If you can be sure there is no sweetener added to plantain and banana chips
then they are OK."

I'm not sure which to believe in this case, but the scdiet.org information was a direct quote from Elaine.
Posted 7/1/2011 5:39 PM (GMT 0)
Wow, that is the first time I have heard of that, where BTVC says one thing and Elaine is quoted on a reliable source saying the opposite.

I guess as Elaine is no longer available for questions (being dead and all) this is one where each of us have to make up our own minds.

I always have loved planteens, and I bet the chips are great but for me I err on the side of being careful. I tried it the other way and got sick.

I am curious, will you try it?

Dave

Posted 7/1/2011 6:12 PM (GMT 0)
I've been eating them for the last few weeks with no problems. However, I'm currently blessed with a perfect remission, so I don't know if my experiences with plantains means anything or not. I know some SCDers can eat the wrong thing and experience painful consequences, but I've not had that happen to me.

I haven't been 100% SCD strict since last summer. At best, I'm about 98% percent compliant week in and week out. I'm also on Remicade every 8 weeks and I don't discount what it has done for me. My GI doc has even suggested pulling the plug on Remicade to see what happens. But right now we are nowhere close to choosing that option. I started doing SCD to hedge my bets if and when Remicade stops working as it seems to do for many CD patients. I've also come to believe that aside from CD a grain free diet is the healthiest for humans.

In any case, I admire your dedication and caution. I wish I were more like that, but old habits die hard.
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