Fried Foods or Potato Skins?

[PBrosnan02]

Hey guys, first post here:

I'm 25 and got diagnosed about 4 years ago, had medication for a while but pretty much self-managed at this point through my diet. I discovered that fried foods had the worst effect on me, although it seemed to be mostly french fries more than anything else. My girlfriend and I have started cutting small strips of potatoes and baking them for 45-60 minutes, with some olive oil and salt & pepper (to avoid the fried aspect).

Anyway, having a small flare up today and I'm wondering if it's actually the potato skins that do the damage, as opposed to the frying. Does anyone else have this issue? I eat baked potatoes all the time but I rarely eat the skin while doing so.

Thanks,

Peter B.

 

[ronroush7]

Welcome. I had a resection six years ago. Ever since then, I can't eat anything with skin. I have to just eat the inside of whatever it is.

 

[hugh]

there was a study years ago showing mice had inflammation from eating potato skins fried in vegetable oils but all it proved is that some mice don't handle fried potato skins fried in vegetable oils...
can't find that one but some people don't handle potatoes but it appears dose related,
so, if you are sensitive and if you can't clear the toxins in a timely manner then you might feel sick[1]
-maybe switch to sweet potatoes, turnips, other roast vegies,
-might be the oils rather than the potatoesplay around if you cant give them up, maybe lard or coconut oil is more tolerable?


[1]Potato glycoalkaloids and adverse effects in humans: an ascending dose study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15649828

 

[d0nk3y]

Yep, potato skin is just harder to digest. I just got diagnosed (I'm 43) and have been baking potato parts to replace fries that are deep-fried. I peel the potatoes (I use golden potatoes), cut them in parts, put them in a bowl, add virgin olive oil, Johnny's seasoning, some granulated garlic, and dried chives. Then put the lid on the bowl and give it a good shake to get all seasoning on all parts. Then put them on a baking sheet and bake on 400 for about 25 minutes. Then take them out, sprinkle on some parmesan cheese, put them back in the oven for a good 5 minutes. Then take them out and let them cool off. No, stomach issues at all and they are delicious!

 

[Justanothercp]

I have to peel everything: apples, potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, peaches etc; I even trim the outside of celery and broccoli. Skins kill me.

 

[InstantCoffee]

There's several elements I would attribute to this as possibilities.

One is the alkaloids in potatoes are often inflammatory and hard to digest for crohn's.

Another is that fried food is rich in omega 6 fatty acids that are inflammatory by nature as they break down into arachidonic acid.

Then there's the fiber aspect. Fiber is just difficult to digest for many with crohn's.

Greasy food tends to stimulate bile production, but crohn's patients frequently have a bad handling of bile acids. They don't convert them properly to secondary bile acids which are more readily absorbed in the ileum, and the ileum is often inflamed and cannot absorb them, so they pass into the large intestine where they can cause gastric upset and bacterial imbalances due to the acidity.