What are the "safest" vegetables?

Congratulations for being so conscious of your eating habits. Besides gluten, I have found that certain fruits and vegetables are incompatible with me. It is no coincidence that my first major flare occurred in June, 2009, when my favorite stone fruits like cherries and plums were available in season. I had been pigging out on them every year. I thought I was eating healthy but apparently not for me.

Safe veggies for me now include sweet potatoes, squash, raw peppers, and zucchini. I can eat spinach but not kale. Regular potatoes are safe for UC but I am careful about eating too many because of solanine. Too many nightshades like potatoes, eggplant, etc., and chocolate can cause me to OD on solanine which gives me temporary arthritis. But moderate amounts are OK.

Apple sauce and chicken broth are super safe and useful when I am in a flare. But everyone is different so you need to experiment on your own.

The absolute safest veggies are ones that have been "juiced" and had the fiber removed but even then beware of taking too much at one time because they are powerful.

My safest cooked veggies are carrots,yellow squash, green beans and spinach but potatoes are now fine with my gut. Earlier they caused a slowdown, almost C. Boy does my gut love spinach.

Some (many) days I don't have the time to juice so I've been buying carrot juice in the veggie section and mixing it with seltzer water and sometimes a little organic red grape juice (store bought). You could make up your own mixes just stay away from anything with ingredients that aren't gut friendly. I don't buy any pre-mixed juices because they all have things my gut objects to.

When I have time to juice I always make too much so I started freezing it in plastic ice cube trays and then defrosting a cube adding water or seltzer and done. I juice carrots, purple cabbage, beets and collard greens separately and sometimes ginger (don't add too much of that-whew).

The safest veggies for me are the ones lowest in fructose like spinach and celery. I can also eat different types of lettuce. I have the worst symptoms to green beans and peas.

I blend veggies everyday into a drink that my kids call "the yuckie drink". I will admit it does not taste great but I feel healthy drinking it. I put spinach (and sometimes kale or dandelion) carrots, red cabbage and sometimes tomato or what ever needs to be eaten in the blender, along with a teaspoon of psyllium husk, a tsp of psyllium seed powder and this seeds of change fiber mix and water. I blend it until smooth and then drink it right away. The advantage is that it is easier for your body to absorb when it is already partly broken down. The disadvantage is that it doesnt taste great......but it does make you feel like you are treating your body well. Oh yes, everything is organic to.

My veggies have to be really cooked- steamed, steamed, and steamed some more. Or baked a long time. The light roasting doesn't do it. Zucchini, other squash, asparagus, and mushrooms are my super safe veggies for coming out of a flare.

"My thing with Carrots is they come out undigested, no matter how much I chew them. so strange, my stools are very well formed yet carrots come out whole."