To cut out all these foods out of my diet?

[HillyBilly1001]

I'm hoping someone with experience in food intolerances might be able to let me know if I'm making the right decision in cutting foods out of my diet.

I've had stomach pain, extreme bloating and gas an hour after eating these chicken products from M&S on three separate occasions. I think I'm going to cut out all the ingredients and then slowly reintroduce them to find the culprit but was wondering if there was an obvious one that I should try first?

M&S Chicken Tikka Fillets
Cooked Chicken Breast (82%), Low Fat Yogurt (Milk), Sugar, Garlic Purée, Ginger Purée, Salt, Ground Spices (Cardamom, Chilli, Coriander, Cumin, Ginger), Greek Style Yogurt (Milk), Dried Herbs (Bay Leaves, Coriander Leaves, Parsley), Dried Yogurt (Milk), Cornflour, Dried Tomatoes, Dried Garlic, Tapioca Starch, Sunflower Oil, Tomato Purée, Vinegar, Colour: Paprika Extract, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Black Onion Seeds, Ginger Extract, Garlic Extract
M&S Mango and Lime Chicken Fillets
Cooked Chicken Breast (79%), Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Brown Sugar, Salt, Dried Red Peppers, Cornflour, Maltodextrin, Ground Spices (Black Pepper, Chilli, Coriander, Paprika, Turmeric), Mango Purée, Dried Onions, Tapioca Starch, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Vinegar, Lime Zest, Dried Garlic, Lime Juice, Dried Mango, Dried Parsley, Concentrated Lime Juice, Lime Oil, Stabiliser: Guar Gum, Garlic Purée, Dried Coriander Leaf, Red Chilli Purée, Turmeric Extract, Paprika Extract, Lemon Oil, Sunflower Oil, Flavouring

Might be the chilli it's in both.Ive got ibs and spice can irritate my stomach

Milk
Garlic
Chilli

Both are UPF - anything with gums/extracts in can be hard for your body to digest. Rather than cutting out foods why not just eat non ultra processed food and see how you get on?

Well you can try a process of elimination in that many of the ingredients there, will be in other foods

Just the things that catch my eye there are
Lactose (in the yoghurt)
Onions and Garlic, if you are challenged by these they can cause those symptoms
guar gum, I have a terrible reaction to that
Tapioca starch
Cornflour
Chicken itself of course, was it ok?

So lots of your other foods will contain these products, are you reacting to these as well?

My only bouts of food poisoning twice was M+S coleslaw

The last time I had these symptoms were on holiday a few weeks ago and I ate a lot of Aioli so I wonder if it's raw garlic. Might try garlic and chilli first. I'm sure it's not milk.

Wouldn't it be easier and healthier to just not eat M&S chicken fillet products?

Way too many ingredients in there,UHP food, not good for anyone.

I've had too much wine to guarentee to do it properly, but what is in both products? Milk is only on the first one.
Garlic and onions are in both. So cutting out garlic, onion, chives, spring onion and leeks might be worth trying.

Otherwise, some of the stabilizers???

If it's only happened 3 times (over what time frame?) it might be quite hard to identify.

Garlic

I have had these symptoms on and off for ages, make once a week on average. Will try garlic first, then chilli then the others mentioned above. Thanks all for your ideas.

Maybe get some tests done?

That's a lot to cut out of your diet at once and tbh I can't see any of the common foods for intolerance in both foods.

I have a lot of intolerances (and allergies) thanks to MCAS, some of which wouldn't be obvious contenders, and what I did was remove one thing at a time (unless I had an immediate, obvious allergic reaction). But I cook 99% of my food from scratch, which makes it easier for me to see what's causing the reaction.

If you're cutting chilli - cut everything in the family at the same time: bell peppers, paprika etc.

Garlic and onion are very common culprits and in so many things.

Do you not have some of the ingredients (garlic, chilli) in anything else?

If you’re on Instagram/ TikTok have a look at theendospectrum, Sophie Richards. She’s done a month grand elimination diet, felt great and had a flat stomach, but when she added chilli flakes back in, the pain and bloating were unbelievable. She posts before and after videos.