Kickas.org Forums Treatments, Drugs and Alternatives NSD and diet-related; Turnips and rutabaga starch content

Hi everyone,

I am reaching out to the forum to see what peoples thoughts are regarding the safety of turnips and rutabaga for the NSD.
Both are listed as containing only 0.1 starch quatity per the most recent Mccance and Widdowson integrated food list. Does anybody have any experience with these two items. Presently, I have successfully introduced turnips into my diet without any flares (5 days). Both of these items are decent sources of carbs (rutabaga has quite a bit more). I can not digest fruit, so I am trying to find vegetables that will up my carb numbers. On a side note, the new Mccance and Widdowson has different numbers than the list we have posted on the forums (i.e. broccoli is more starchy in the new dataset).

Thanks,

Scott

Hi Scott,
I only started the NSD a few days ago, (and thus is my first post) so I can't share anything about my personal experience with turnips.
Seeing as no one answered your question yet, I tried a search on this site (via Google) and it came up with this thread:
https://www.kickas.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=501220

I do know that a friend of mine, who is on a (doctor supervised)low carbohydrate diet (to help with her diabetes) is allowed to eat turnips, so that suggests it would be ok?

I hope this will answer your question a bit,
Good luck with the diet!

Jill

According to our food list turnips are low in starch. You can always use iodine to test them - this is a skill you will need to master for the NSD !


Turnip (raw) 0.2
Source: https://www.kickas.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=143543

See also: https://www.kickas.org/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=487061


Might want to wait until you are pain free before adding this, just in case as it is a root vegetable.

I haven't logged in quite a while, so sorry for a belated response to a month old thread.

I find almost all root vegetables to be problematic. Then again, I'm crazy sensitive but I would be very cautious with the two.

The only root veggies that my body can tolerate are garlic and ginger - perhaps because they have something that is antagonistic to the klebs.

I'm still trying to figure out if onions are OK, but I've had pretty bad luck with other root veggies. Best of luck and let us know it turns out if you try it.