Digestion

I think most of us with IBD have had a hard time with raw foods at one time or another (especially when inflammation is present). You need to give your innards time to heal before following the raw food path, in my opinion. In the meantime, steaming will maintain most of the nutritional value of food, while making it much easier to digest.

I still don't eat the peel on apples, but I think it's more because I don't like it anyway. I don't peel other fruits except the obvious ones..lol!

I think with fruits and raw foods, one has to also have "substance" in order for it all to bind together...maybe adding fibre supplements would help??

Eat them whatever way agrees with you.....even people who don't have UC recognise not all foods agree with them and adjust accordingly. It is what it is.

Besides, there is NO diet for UC, you'll have to experiment to eat as balanced as possible and take your medications. The added stress of not fitting into a diet can be overwhelming and have one feeling like a failure...at least that's how I see the psychological impact of believing food is responsible for UC flares, etc.

I must ask you Jamie, why are you not on an oral 5-ASA med as well?

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Jamie - i'm glad the pred is giving you some comfort - that's what it seems to do best before it starts kicking your hiney - i don't think there are too many old timers on here that will tell you any different - the sooner you get off the pred the better - just don't get in a hurry cuz that's another of it's "special" quirks - too fast too soon can lead to trouble -

you might think about juicing your fruits & veggies - kind of pre digests everything which is what your body needs - the nutrients but not all the work - and try to limit the fruit for a while - juicing increases the amount of natural sugar you get in a serving, which your gut probably doesn't need right now - 

good luck -

Lonnie