SCD food (green plantain and potatoes)

I was reading "Breaking the vicious cycle" book and was confused about green plantain and potatoes. These two vegetables are full of starch and as per SCD it is under illegal category. On the contrary, I have read in many other places that these two vegetables are very good for Ulcerative Colitis.

I'm very confused as today my daughter was given green plantain for lunch (she is recovering from a flare with Prednisone). Am I doing something wrong?

Even slippery elm is to be avoided as per SCD diet.It is a mucilaginous herb. Mucilaginous herbs are loaded with starch. This starch is food for the pathogens that the SCD™ is designed to starve out.

Please advice. I'm a newbie to this disease and my head is spinning.

Post Edited (kamakya) : 1/25/2014 3:59:21 PM (GMT-7)

kamakya, potatoes and green plantains are a big NO on SCD.

Kamkaya,
Just try little bit and watch her symptoms.
OR to make it easy for her gut- you could make some raw plantain powder at home. Give her 1 tsp powder mixed with organic honey in the morning and evening. DD's Ayurveda doc suggested this during her flare. If u want instructions how to make this powder let me know...

@Bloom93. I would really appreciate if you can send me the instructions.

Post Edited (kamakya) : 1/28/2014 6:00:19 PM (GMT-7)

Kamkya,
Here is the instructions :

Buy raw green plantains. (2 or 3 will do -You can get these in Indian store.)
Wash it nicely.
Slice it very thin along with the skin.(Do not remove the skin)
Spread the slices in a tray and dry it nicely. (I dried it in the sun outside, covered with net as it was summer. U can try drying in the oven- or dehydrator( I am not sure about this as i haven't used it)
Once dried, powder it in the mixer or blender
Store it in tight container and use it.
You can give 1tsp mixed with organic honey in the am and pm.

There really is no such thing as a UC diet. The best thing to do is avoid foods that make your UC worse and eat foods that make it better - and to hell with a specific diet.

I found over indulging in sugars from fruits to be problematic with the SCD. Meat and fat seem to be OK for me. Most people have an issue with peanut butter as well, though it's fine in the SCD. I never really got good results with "SCD yogurt" either. It's easier for me to pop a probiotic capsule. There's no correct answer. If there was, then everyone would just follow the SCD and get on fine.

Personally, resistant starches helped me a lot. I'm not a fan of plantains though, which really need to be cooked and thus their RS content is gone. I prefer greenish bananas, and potato starch.

Like others have said, try it out, if your daughter has problems then avoid that food. Nobody here can advise you on what is going to be tolerated and what's going to work in your situation personally.

I'm just thinking that if someone is doing an SCD diet because of their UC then they believe that to be a UC diet. Same for all other diets. If someone is doing Paleo or Gluten free or whatever because they have UC then they believe those to be UC diets. The true UC diet is when you don't eat things that are bad for your UC and do eat things which are good for your UC, to heck with what is legal and what is illegal and this particular diet would be different in everyone. I think people are making a mistake in trying to limit themselves to a particular diet which has legal and illegal items because some of the legal items may be bad for you and some of the illegal items might actually be good for you.

but the point gary, is you have to start somewhere - each plan has it's own starting point and direction, but not necessarily a destination - it's not like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece has a place, with no variation -

you've been around here long enough to know that almost everyone who starts out with diet mods, changes things along the way -

how else would do it ?