DS ate 270g of dried apricots

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He says his stomach hurts.. I bet he'll be off tomorrow with the runs. Apparently he was ravenous after school and there were no other suitable snacks🤔

Omg! I did this a few years ago and I was so sick for 2 days! My stomach was in agony. I ended up throwing up what seemed to be pure apricot juice. I haven’t touched dried apricots since. Your poor son. I hope it’s not as bad as my experience.

Oh it wasn’t dried apricots. It was dried mango. I suddenly remembered the taste and I want to puke up.

I drank a mango smoothie once.

Never again.

I think it's more the effect that the dried apricots have, rather than fresh. Especially if you were to eat a 250/500g pack in one go. I never really thought about the difference, tho I - and probably many of the pp - didn't tend to sit and sat 40 fresh apricots in one go, but far easier to "accidentally" eat a whole pack of dried ones. But due to diagnosed digestive issues I was advised to look at and try the FODMAP diet, where I realised that there is a massive difference in between the effect certain dried fruit has (esp stone fruit) vs same fruit fresh, due to the concentration of sugars, particularly certain sugars (one of the FODMAP but cannot remember precisely now which) and the massive effect it can have on you if you're sensitive or intolerant to apricots, amongst others, which can then really multiply the hellish effect that they have on your poor, poor gut and digestive results 😃
Incidentally, that also explained why several years before I had rather an...I don't quite know how to put this...immediate break-free of a bottle of apple juice in an rather gushing liquid kind of way that I had no warning of and no sense of feeling of until it was too late and had to make rather a quick exit from where I was, hoody tied round waist in an attempt to disguise evidence, and jump in a taxi and get home. I wondered what on earth had happened but then whilst looking at FODMAP I discovered why it had happened. Dear god, the shame! Nobody knew where I suddenly disappeared to!! 🥹

@Whatwaswrongwiththatusername - yes, but with the number of apricot trees we had we also dried a lot of fruit - apricots from a tree are a sod for all ripening within a week so you have to do something with them so jam and dried fruit were the main go tos. So I know what it's like to eat lots of dried apricots and while I go to the loo a bit more, it's certainly not what happens to other people on this thread.

I fact I recently went through a 500 gram bag of dried mango - not much of a side effect.

I can only assume some people are more susceptible to "side effects" than others. But then I'm generally in the "don't go very often anyway" camp.... 😕

Or maybe it's a side effect of commercially dried fruit with additives? Ours were additive free as were the mangos (relative has a mango farm and we buy them directly off her so I know they have no additives).

Don't they add sulphur to dried apricots as a preservative? I absolutely love them, but they give me tunny ache, followed by window-rattling farts.

Bloody lovely, though.

I've just bought a ninja so thought I'd roast a huge pile of parsnips to test it out .
I love parsnips but over indulged and I feel your sons pain 😩.
My family have been giving me a wide berth all weekend 😂

I remember years ago,my dad took my lot to some day out that was based on the environment

Part of it was crushing fresh apples to make apple juice

My ds took part-and drank 20 cups of this juice-god only knows how many apples they used

(grandad was one of these grandads that didn't pay too much attention what they where doing as they where old enough not to wander off and come back when called)

He claimed he felt OK,until 6am the following morning-where he rushed to the loo and took off on it

The smell was unreal-it really cleared him out

Grandad thought it was funny

Oddly,I didn't

our neighbours complained about the smell it was that bad-it took at least 24 hours to get the pong out of our house

They wanted to go back the following year-i said no!

They give me the WORST farts!

As a young adult I once bought a bag as part if a "healthy" lunch and ate the lit at my desk.

It was a very uncomfortable amd smelly afternoon. I don't think I had the runs, but the worst and smelliest wind ever!