Spinach/Sunflower

Just saw the posts about Sunbutter too..hoping this is available where I live--I'm assuming peanut butter isle

I tried jarred spinach and sunflower seeds and it did not seem to help me. However I am open to trying again with fresh or frozen spinach and sun butter. All of the possibilities you have listed were successfully tried by at least some people in the big thread. Canned or frozen spinach and sunbutter seemed to be the most-recommended way to go in that thread (fresh spinach is just less convenient, I think.) If you go with frozen spinach, that has the added bonus of also being SCD legal unlike canned spinach.

Thanks so much for the info and suggestions..I looked for Sunbutter today at Walmart, but no luck so I will try Publix tomorrow. I did buy a bag of sunflower seed and ate a few tonight and I think I got a good serving of frozen spinach today in "tuna cakes". I've been hooked on these since I found the recipe on Pinterest while looking for something simple and friendly the last few days.

I buy organic fresh spinach and saute it with garlic and olive oil and it's really delicious and great as a side for any meal, even eggs when I was eating them (hope to re-introduce those soon again).

They sell sunbutter on amazon if your Publix does not have it http://www.amazon.com/SunButter-Creamy-Sunflower-16-Ounce-Plastic/dp/B002OK6E6I seems expensive, but buying a bulk will last a while and a little will go a long way in terms of fiber. Also, the stuff is absolutely delicious! I make a smoothie with sunbutter, frozen bananas and homemade almond or coconut milk that is just the best way to start the day. A lot of flavor packed in for sure with sunbutter, even moreso than with almond butter. Good luck!

I never did the sunflower/spinach diet/cure thing - I've just always eaten spinach - 3-4 times a week - and I do have sf seed butter around on a semi regular basis - I can't do a lot of it, but occasionally is fine -

imo, fats are NOT bad - our bodies need fats to work properly - you just have to find out which ones work best for you -

my way of looking at food is to eat healthy for your body - takes time to figure it out, but in the end it will be worth it !

nope, did not try it before uc - had never heard of it - but I had used other nut butters previously, just no sf seed -

I don't do well on a regular diet of nuts - I like them, and in moderation I do fine -

like anything new, start slow till you know whether or not your body will tolerate it - and if you can, try it by itself - hard to know if it's a problem or not if you eat it with other food - I usually just eat a few spoonfuls out of the jar and call it good -

Post Edited (soystud) : 10/27/2013 9:23:12 AM (GMT-6)

I found some success with this diet and then it stopped working after a month. I still eat SF butter and ground up pumpkin seed sandwiches almost daily. I do enjoy sautéing fresh organic spinach or organic Kale several nights a week.

I do know many have found remission with this diet so it is definitely worth a go.

Best...

I crush the pumpkin or sunflower seeds in a coffee grinder. Easy to eat and digest. There is no question many will have some success with the spinach/sf or pumpkin seed combo.

@Gary Never heard of histamine issues and UC although you mention it a great deal. Does not sound like a very common issue.

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Yes. If you google these things it is a lot more common than UC'rs realize. I have seen many, many posts here from people who have eaten something and it made their UC much worse and I noticed the things they mentioned are foods containing high histamines. I don't think people put much stock in this connection and I try not to harp on it as I don't want to become a food preacher like some others who post. Histamine intolerance closely mimics some other things like gluten intolerance so I believe a whole lot of people who claim that going gluten free has helped them are actually getting help because their going gluten free is actually cutting back on high histamine foods, which may be their real problem and not gluten. It has been proven in studies that many UC'rs are low on the digestive enzyme DAO, which helps eliminate dietary histamines.

Please refer to my post just above yours. I believe Spinach is high in histamines. I'm not a spinach eater but once, just like you, I wanted the final push toward remission and started eating sunflower seeds and had the very same reaction you described from spinach. I already knew I had a histamine intolerance but didn't know that sunflower seeds were high in histamines. Hopefully you can at least get back to where you were. You might want to consider the histamine thing as a possibility.

limitless, greens are like hell in my colon. they are so rough in an inflamed colon because of all the insoluble fiber. i stay FAR away from them.

Here's something interesting:

"Various single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the DAO gene have been shown to be associated with inflammatory and neoplastic gastrointestinal diseases, such as food allergy (44), gluten-sensitive enteropathy, Crohn disease, ulcerative colitis, and colon adenoma (45–47).......Thus, histamine intolerance seems to be acquired mostly through the impairment of DAO activity caused by gastrointestinal diseases......"

from this paper
ajcn.nutrition.org/content/85/5/1185.full.pdf