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Thanks the response! I'm fairly confident it's not the rice as I've been eating out of the same bag with no other reactions. Your carpet analogy makes perfect sense though. I've been fine so far with minced garlic so maybe it's a potency issue or the onion/other spices. I'll try them separately to get to the bottom of it.

So last night for dinner I used McCormick spices on some grilled chicken and zucchini with a side a plain brown rice. No chance of cross contamination from cooking instruments. A half hour after eating that and a desert I started feeling sick. I figured the desert had cross contamination issues. Just had leftovers for lunch about 45 min (minus the desert...