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Hi everyone, I’d really like to be able to eat pumpkin seeds but this is the second time trying them, this time a different type, and got glutened again.

has anyone tried washing them first? Soap and vinegar maybe? Or soaking them in probiotics, kefir/kombucha?

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There’s an advert for ‘gliadin’ on my screen, has anyone tried pre soaking seeds in it?

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Pumpkin seeds are high in Lectins.  Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins found in plant seeds and beans.  Lectins can be inflammatory to already damaged intestines as in Celiac Disease.  

Interesting Reading...

Do dietary lectins cause disease?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1115436/

 

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@knitty kitty wow! That is really interesting so it might not be a contamination issue, I’ll get some glucosamine to try, thank you :)

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Cooking them with chilli flakes probably didn’t help, keep up the good work @knitty kitty , you’re amazing :)

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@knitty kitty update.. it works :) I soaked them overnight with glucosamine and although I’m still recovering from the last batch I don’t feel glutened.

I’ll wait until I’m healed a bit more before trying again but pretty sure I’m just getting the tail end symptoms of the previous attempt, doesn’t seem to have worsened by eating the glucosamine soaked seeds.

thanks so much :) I don’t eat meat so cutting out seeds would’ve been a big loss.

 

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Further update- feeling rubbish again today so more testing required, it does seem to help/reduce symptoms but I’ll need to wait until I’m feeling better and try again to know if this is completely effective. 

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Have you tried soaking them in distilled water?  Apparently distilled water can pull more lectins out of seeds and beans.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29580532/

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@knitty kittyOoh that makes sense. I’m going to need to wait a while before any more experimenting though, collapsed in a heap with ballon belly.

Cucumbers are now getting peeled and de seeded so hopefully that’ll help and Tempeh is next on the list of things to test which might be a good alternative.

I’m a bit frightened to try pumpkin seeds again at the moment but hopefully I’ll get brave and try with distilled water when I’m feeling better.

Thanks for the link :)

eta.. oh no! ‘The raw soybean seed was found to contain the highest levels of lectins’ :( 

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@Liquid lunch,

Remember to stay away from cruciferous vegetables, for a while, too!!!  😺

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@knitty kitty you might find this interesting..

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0963996994900965

‘lectins in tempe and other fermented foods made from beans, can be reduced up to 95%’

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