Chicken salad sandwich update

[robinbloke]

Well, I managed about half of the sandwich and it really wasn't nice.
I try to occasionally find something vaguely healthy I like, so far - not much luck.
Anyway, if we hadn't been meant to eat animals they wouldn't be so tasty.

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Re: Cute!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

There might be a corellation with sulphur dioxide, which is used as a preservative, or nitrates which are less common now. If you get a reaction from dried fruits quite often I'd think sulphur dioxide first. If it makes you feel slightly drifty and high, and balancing is difficult, those are sulphur dioxide related things. (But of course also correspond to many many other things.)

Alternatively it could be MSG or aspartame but tinned and frozen foods don't tend to have those in much, it's more crisps. Keeping a diary of what you eat and whether you become ill or not will help you find out what it is.

What kind of ill is it?

Re: Cute!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I tend to feel bloated, sick, headachey (sometimes severely). "Poisoned" wouldn't be too far wrong. I have investigated obvious things like wheat/gluten intolerance (avoiding both made no difference). Aspartame doesn't seem to be it either. MSG is possible/likely, but that doesn't explain why I don't get the problem from Chinese food, unless of course it is present in much bigger quantities in crisps.

I know for sure that I don't get on well with excessive amounts of salt, which definitely does make me feel sick, but again this doesn't correlate that well. I can eat quite salty bacon without problems.

Re: Cute!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

That sounds sulphur dioxidey to me, although I'm not the expert. Watch out for it in food, and if you stop feeling ill when you give it up that may have been the problem substance.

Of course if you feel utterly terrible like that at some point and it doesn't go away after three hours, see a doctor, because it may be something else - minor food intolerances usually are almost gone after about three hours. (Things like wheat or lactose reactions, which are eaten in larger quantities and are more severe, can last longer. Peanut allergies and others that involve anaphylactic shock are out of my field of knowledge on such things.)

Chinese food varies in its MSG content - there are some places who don't use any, some who use about as much as in crisps, and some who use enough to make anybody but the most hardened MSG-eater ill. Some of the stalls in Camden put loads in. My threshold is just below crisp level. (Not counting Walkers crisps because they pile aspartame in as well, the bastards.)