I love _____ but I'm allergic to it!
hey guys! so, i love pineapple, but eating it makes my tongue ( and the roof of my mouth) go numb, and itchy. its a weird sensation. i hate the feeling but i love pineapple! so i eat it anyways and then take some benadryl.
so guys, what foods are you allergic to that you still eat? or anyone you know of have a weird allergy?
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28 Comments:
I'm not allergic to any food that I know of .... thank God!!
caramel at 10:08PM on 07/20/09
It's not an allergy, but I love tomatoes...except they give me canker stores and acid reflux.
producestories at 10:12PM on 07/20/09
I love funky blue cheeses, however I'm really allergic to molds. So, I take a benadryl before hand and have a small amount on a salad or bruchetta. Thankfully it's so flavorful that a bit goes a long ways. If I've over indulged my mouth really burns and it triggers my asthma. Just a few times year is the wiser thing to do... or perhaps not at all, but gee I just love blue cheese.
dhorst at 10:23PM on 07/20/09
I'm allergic to chocolate. I found out last summer, and then spent months of denial. It's not a serious reaction, but unpleasant enough to make me kick the habit. People think I'm insane, that I don't like it...but I do. D: I break out in a kind of rash....even if there's cocoa butter in the lotion I put on...let alone eating it.
eggyzhe at 11:07PM on 07/20/09
@listner, your reaction sounds like Oral Allergy Syndrome http://allergies.about.com/od/foodallergies/a/oas.htm
I have issues with most fruits and nuts due to OAS, but I eat pretty much everything except for melons and plums anyway.
ProfessorChaos at 11:16PM on 07/20/09
Overeating.
marchpane at 1:52AM on 07/21/09
Shellfish but I still eat it since it has no ill effect on me. The oddest allergy I heard of is to poultry.
pjracz10 at 2:24AM on 07/21/09
@pjracz10 - Shellfish? LOL...you live on a boat!! Oh....the irony!
arm1970 at 7:12AM on 07/21/09
it may not actually be an allergy. very fresh pineapple (ie: not canned) contains an enzyme called bromelain which digests proteins and the prickly feeling your mouth could actually be the enzyme digesting the proteins that make up the primary epithelial layer in your mouth and causing a tingling/numb/burning sensation. The fresher the pineapple and the more of it you eat the worse the feeling is.
avryan at 8:28AM on 07/21/09
the only allergyI have is to lactose, however there are so many things I cant eat because of an inability to digest them that the list is damn near endless.
huneybumper at 8:34AM on 07/21/09
avacado....it's so sad b/c i loooove it. i spent many years denying it, but there's no getting around it. bums me out greatly. :(
gastronomeg at 9:55AM on 07/21/09
Can you develop an allergy to a food? During adult life, I mean? Because there is this kind of fruit called "Yangmei" (or the Chinese strawberry) that I don't remember ever having issues with before, but now whenever I eat it my mouth (or more accurately the roof of my mouth between the rough and soft palate areas) feels like I've rubbed sand paper over it...
Which sucks, since I love yangmei.
Takat at 10:24AM on 07/21/09
I have the same issue with fresh pineapple... love the stuff, but i can't eat it really fresh.. so I've taken to buying one, cutting it up and letting it sit for at least a day, then I can eat it a lot better. But I won't give it up completely.
Alm25 at 10:33AM on 07/21/09
i have the pineapple issue too. and tomatoes. i get weird patches on my tongue. and if i eat any fruit that is slightly acidic (ripe peaches, ripe apricots, ripe plums, even sometimes apples) and i get the juice anywhere on or near my lips, the area around my mouth turns bright red and starts itching. that happened to me recently when i was eating mangos with chile and lime. that being said, i STILL EAT ALL THAT. i'd rather suffer. oh, and also sturgeon. i had a tiny bit once and then broke out in hives and couldnt breathe and went to the hospital. so i won't be eating black caviar anytime soon either.
korovka at 11:08AM on 07/21/09
Shrimp... I adore it and used to eat it all the time but now it makes me violently ill. sigh.
sbelle at 11:54AM on 07/21/09
This bums me out - cherries. I can eat them in a pie, THANK GOD, but fresh cherries make my mouth itch and my throat constrict.
Also, according to my Mom, if I eat too many apples I'll have an allergic reaction. However, since I haven't eaten more than 5 apples in one sitting since I was 10 years old, I'm not too worried about it.
TheCheapChick at 1:00PM on 07/21/09
@takat you can develop an allergy to anything at any time in your life. I had no food allergies as a kid and now I am deathly allergic, (I mean that seriously - I carry an epi-pen), to avocados. Sadly, it's not terribly uncommon to develop food allergies as an adult.
ProfessorChaos at 2:08PM on 07/21/09
Strawberries. I don't use emoticons typically, but this is a huge :((((
savecara at 2:23PM on 07/21/09
I'm allergic to avocados too! It's hugely inconvenient--I don't really remember seeing them that much as a kid, but now it seems like it's the default ingredient to make an otherwise average and unassuming dish seem "upscale." I think I last ate it with a tuna tartare at a very lovely dinner at a private chateau in France where I didn't want to make waves. I'm lactose intolerant, too, but that's easy enough to manage with lactase pills.
klw07 at 2:27PM on 07/21/09
I have an intolerance for fresh apples, which is a personal tragedy since I have always loved them...only in the past 3 or 4 years has the intolerance gotten bad enough to stop me from eating them. I also have a milk protein thing which the doctor called an allergy but I have since been scolded for using that term--so maybe that's an intolerance, too. Like lactose intolerance except there's nothing to be done for it. Sometimes I have the milk products anyway cause they're too yummy not to, but I always pay for it :-(
littlestcapy at 2:51PM on 07/21/09
I have to be careful about seafood. Too much, too often causes major hives. I'm especially aware if I'm vacationing at the beach, because seafoods happen to be my favorite foods. Always have benadryl with me and take it before splurging.
I'm also allergic to the iodine in x-rays, mri's, scans, etc.; in fact that's where my allergic reaction started and has now carried over into shellfish consumption. Bummer!
duncan1205 at 2:56PM on 07/21/09
Bread...and that is perhaps why I crave it.
ocarol at 3:06PM on 07/21/09
@littlestcapy - me too on the apples! Ate an apple a day for years and years and one day my face and hands just blew up after eating one (not the most attractive thing to happen at work). I was soo bummed and still get a little melancholy when I walk by the fruit stands and know I can not have a Granny Smith anymore.
fdr1952 at 3:24PM on 07/21/09
I'm not allergic to any foods but I have a friend who recently came down with an allergy to chocolate! She is miserable to say the least :(
Chew on That at 6:18PM on 07/21/09
I had a doctor tell me that people often crave what they are allergic to. From the posts here, seems not far off.
khfrisco at 6:43PM on 07/21/09
Oh boy, ready...
Soy sauce, miso, beans, green beans, peas, chocolate (made with soy), and most nuts.
WickedGoodDinner at 9:31PM on 07/21/09
Fresh pineapple does something different to me. The first bite or two are wonderfully sweet and pinappley, but if I eat any more, it tastes horribly bitter with oniony undertones. My brother has the same experience (he only learned this when he lived in Hawaii). Maybe it's some reaction to the enzymes.
Kerosena at 2:20PM on 07/22/09
@ avryan - it happens with canned pineapple too, so im not sure thats it.
ive never heard of allergies to apples or avocados before. I love both so hopefully i dont develop either!
listener at 5:43PM on 07/22/09