Food Intolerance Analysis
Fruit
Raw, cooked or dried: Apples, grapes, cherries, strawberries, pears, berries, bananas, cranberries, papaya, kiwi, coconut, olive (including oil), avocado, dates, palm (oil, bark, peel). Most herbal tinctures use “vegetable glycerin in the formula, it is actually from palm and so tests as fruit.
Citrus fruits and their juices (including lemon).
All products made from fruit, such as wine and vinegar, unless vinegar is labeled grain vinegar, which is distilled; fruit liquors, ascorbic acid, citric acid, artificial fruit flavorings.
Apple cider vinegar or citric acid is often included in ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, relishes, pickles, and picante sauces and canned goods (these may also contain sugar, so read labels closely if you have a sugar and fruit combination).
Note: A person with a fruit intolerance MAY safely eat these:
Melon (honeydew, cantaloupe, muskmelon, Crenshaw, watermelon), tomatoes, tomatillos (ground cherries/husk tomatoes), rhubarb, pineapple, prickly pear cactus.
Preserves, jams, sauces and fruit leather can be made from these.
Alternatives:
Rhubarb wine, honey wine (Mead).
Hawthorn berries, rose hips, and hibiscus are not fruit, and all are excellent non-fruit sources of Vitamin C. A non-fruit Vitamin C is made from cassava root, by Allergy Research Group.
Lemon grass, lemon balm, lemon mint, and lemon thyme are also non-fruit herbs that can make dishes tasty if you need a lemon flavor in your cooking.
Additives
Additives such as sorbitol and polysorbate-80 are preservatives found in toothpaste, chewing gum, cream cheese, salad dressing and is considered a fruit.
Vanilla extract and herbal extracts may be considered fruit due to alcohol or palm oil glycerine base.
Commercial yogurt is also fruit due to the grape enzymes added to keep the culture from separating.
Many nuts are shelled chemically via citric acid- so shelled peanuts, pecans, walnuts and almonds may be contaminated with fruit.
Annato coloring is from tropical fruit trees.
Vitamin A palmitate is fruit and is put into milk and breakfast cereal to fortify them. Also watch for Vitamin A in your supplements. Fructose and date sugar are pure fruit derived sugars which are only fruit and not technically sugar. Palm extract, SLS- sodium laurel sulfate, is a fruit and found in may cosmetics, toothpaste and shampoos.
All sodas and colas are fruit. Cola is a tropical fruit.
Cashews and nutmeg both come from tropical fruit trees and considered fruit. Cream of tartar is fruit as well and should be avoided.
Earl Gray tea is from the juniper berry and some fruit intolerant people react to this tea as if it is a fruit extract, so also watch for Juniper. Some tea bags also contain fruit residue on them. Loose tea is always the best option.
Most juices made from concentrate have sugar added, even a fruit juice may state that it contains artificial flavors, it still contains fruit and should be avoided. Most wine is made from fruit and should be avoided.
Avoid supplements, foods and cleaners (especially washing machine soap) that contain ingredient such as: citrate, sorbitol, betaine (most commonly found as HCL Betaine for stomach acid support) or MCT. MCT is medium chain triglyceride, often derived from coconut and currently being used in a large number of supplement formulas.
Many water filter system are fruit. The charcoal filter is often made from coconut shells. Some are not, but many are.
Coffee– some coffee tests as fruit. Each brand is different. Generally it is potato or fruit. The bigger brands could be several different ones.