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Posted 3/31/2012 9:51 PM (GMT -5)
Do any of you eat either one of these during a flare?  Are they too scratchy?  My naturopath seemed to thing coconut flour is less abrasive?  Just curious.
Posted 4/1/2012 5:36 AM (GMT -5)
i do not like the taste or texture of coconut flour. i've made it in baked goods and raw food snacks. it's just kind of off. i can drink almond milk during flares but not actual nuts. i guess you just have to try them out and see how they affect you. i notice that the less actual food i consume, the better. anything low fiber and liquid is good.
Posted 4/1/2012 5:58 AM (GMT -5)
I found coconut flour too difficult for my gut, along with everything coconut except for coconut oil which is great!

I recently deleted almond flour also from my diet and substituted almond butter and this cut down on my BM# as well as occasional C.
Your gut may be different, mine is pretty picky, and I used almond meal/flour for 1.5 years before figuring out it was slowing things down too much. The only fiber my gut likes (right now) is soluble fiber but I expect to add back almond flour some time in the future so I can have cookies again.

It wasn't the "scratchy" part of either coconut or almond flour, it was the difficulty in processing/digesting it that made me eliminate them. A small amount of almond flour would probably be fine but I ate quite a bit of baked goods daily made with almond flour and that was a problem (although not a big one).
Posted 4/2/2012 6:58 AM (GMT -5)
I was baking with almond flour quite a bit and using honey, but then I found out I couldn't eat the honey (too much fructose). I don't seem to have any problems with almond flour during a flare. I actually have a bag of coconut flour in my pantry, but have not used it yet.
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