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Monique, I eat mangoes in my smoothies quite a bit without a problem. Maybe if you start with just a little bit to see? I try not to use huge portions of fruit, more for flavor than anything else.
Jean
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." Mark Twain
Did you know that mangoes are the most widely-consumed fruit in the world? While they do contain a significant of fiber and sugar, most of the fiber is soluble, and the fructose content (and sugar alcohol content) of mangoes is relatively low. Most of the sugar in mangoes is sucrose.
And research shows that despite the natural sugar content of mangoes, they help to moderate and even lower blood sugar levels, so they should be diabetes-friendly. So there's good reason to believe that there may be little justification for mangophobia.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Before MC, a favorite dessert was fresh mango swirled with vanilla ice cream. So good. Now I use a few pieces of frozen mango in a fruit smoothie made from frozen banana, peach, raspberries, raspberry sorbet (1T) and apple juice. Just a little of each fruit and I have NO problem, no rumblings or gas.
Sheila W
To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
A person who never made a mistake never tried something new. Einstein
When we lived in Acapulco (my husband's hometown), we had several mango trees (among others like key limes, almonds, bananas, grapefruit, and tamarind trees!) We couldn't possibly starve to death, because the fruit was so abundant that we couldn't pick it all...it would fall off the trees and become a slippery mango mess on the driveway! The kids would climb the trees and pick them green, and eat them with hot sauce! I miss them; here they cost $1.50 each! When we do get some, they don't cause any tummy troubles for me.
Pat C.
"Don't sweat the small stuff.
P.S. (It's all small stuff!)"
Mango is the only fruit I can eat besides avocado. Like Monique, I'd buy one and it would sit in my refrigerator because I was afraid to eat it. I started out slowly, but now I eat some every day. I've even begun making a low-sugar mango jam using Clear Jel. It tastes like mango custard and is delicious. I put it on my muffins and Fritos Scoops for a snack.
I made mango ice cream using concentrated homemade almond milk. It was really good; even DH liked it. But I had a little problem the next day. I need to test it again.
I've been testing rhubarb in my brown sugar muffins and so far, so good. Rhubarb is low in fructose, too. I'm going to make a rhubarb-mango cobbler to see if I can handle a little more rhubarb. It will be the first baked dessert I've had in over three years. If I can handle the rhubarb, I might make rhubarb jam. I've got lots in my garden right now.
I don't drink mango juice or smoothies, however. Fruit juice isn't good for people with histamin problems.
Gloia
You never know what you can do until you have to do it.
I got a tray of mangoes from Costco. I blended them with a little agave syrup and a lot of lime juice. The pulp was so creamy (barring some lumps of strings, which I will sieve to remove next time) I made ice cream straight from the pulp with no more additions. It was delish!
I've even begun making a low-sugar mango jam using Clear Jel.
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