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Posted 3/17/2013 4:53 AM (GMT 0)
I had no idea how many ounces...so I looked it up.
it says how many ounces and the cup measurement in each can, that it's cooked and even two recipes. more than you asked, so hope it helps.
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Posted 3/17/2013 4:59 AM (GMT 0)

Andrina said...
I just wanted to know how many ounces haha but thanks

14 ounces (400 grams). Not sure if that includes the water, but anyway, that's what it says on the can. Each can costs me $.89 btw, so each serving sets me back about 45 cents. I wonder if any of the natural probiotics can survive the canning process. Probably not. They probably can it at extreme heat to "sterilize" it.
Posted 3/20/2013 2:42 PM (GMT 0)
I am into BBI Bowman-Birk inhibitors,that inhibit protease,soybean contains a lot but just ran across this

from sunflower seeds.  The idea here is that there is too much protease in the colon whether from digestive enzymes

that are not deactivated,mast cells,or bacteria.  These proteases would dissolve mucus and also attack the colon itself.

Old Mike

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12621047

It is too bad that all sunflowe seeds do not contain the inhibitor,no way to tell what you are getting.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jsfa.2740250704/abstract

Post Edited (Old Mike) : 3/20/2013 8:55:57 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/22/2013 12:52 PM (GMT 0)
How is everyone doing of those who do the spinach sunflower seed thing still?

I've been eating leaf spinach every day and I seem to tolerate this a lot better than the chopped spinach. Sometimes I get d but mostly my stools are softly formed. The spinach certainly shows in the toilet bowl haha. I love the sunflower seeds and I seem to tolerate them well. I only bleed now when I eat bad stuff like nachos, ice cream etc. Other than that my bleeding has stopped. I'm also trying to apply SCD again although I'm not 100% at it (hence I bleed).

I'm still on 60 mg pred and 50 mg Imuran.
Posted 3/23/2013 2:03 PM (GMT 0)
I've been doing the spinach/sunflower seed thing for several years now.  I dont tolerate meds of any kind well.  Even asacol/lialda just to many side effects that I cant live with.  So this high magnesuim/beta carotene diet has been a life saver for me.  Once I get in remission from it, like now, I eat spinach about twice a week, carrots or sweet potato once a week and sunflower seeds or sunflower seed butter 3 times a week.  In addition I also avoid processed foods as much as possible only allowing them on occasion.

If I back off of eating the spinach and seeds for to long I start to experience UC symptoms again.  Reintroduce them and symptoms diminish again.  The longer I stay off of them and the worse a flare becomes the longer it takes for the foods to heal again.

Posted 3/23/2013 2:17 PM (GMT 0)
How long did it take for you to see improvement on the diet? When did the bleeding stop?
Posted 3/23/2013 2:40 PM (GMT 0)
The very first time trying spinach/sunflower seeds?  its hard to remember because it was so long ago.  I think it depends on the severity of your symptoms as well.  If I remember correctly the first time it tooks several weeks before i saw improvement. 
Posted 3/23/2013 2:43 PM (GMT 0)
How much did you eat initially?
Posted 4/19/2017 11:41 PM (GMT 0)
Glad you found a good thing for your stomach.

Cooked spinach is my gut's friend, always positive but not wheat pasta. Have been eating rice noodles recently and OMG happy gut. Weird because regular rice not liked at all and have tried at least 5 kinds of rice cooked various ways including rice slurry but gut says "no". Asian restaurants charge $2 extra for rice noodles, worth it.
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