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I was thinking to myself earlier that many people have dietary restrictions of SOME sort. Whether that be self-imposed or pre-determined. Plenty of people have allergies or take medications that don’t allow them to have certain foods, Grapefruit is (or was idk) not good for people on Blood Pressure medication I hear firsthand. Then there’s the religious exemptions, like avoiding Pork or alcohol or Beef. Then there’s also the ideological exemptions; Vegetarianism, Pescatarianism, Veganism, I could go on. TL;DR: Do you have a dietary restriction and if so, why?

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago
[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago
[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

That’s some ShoeNice type shit lol

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 10 months ago

I can't consume a large number of liberalism particles, they cause headaches

[-] TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

im-vegan

Also, I can't take any cyp3a4 inhibitors like grapefruit cause of my meds.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago
[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Any reason? I assume it’s probably pretty good for you, to each their own tho, I love fruit

[-] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

I recall hearing that a lot of modern fruit, at least in the West, is significantly less nutritious than it used to be; if that's true, it's mostly sugar and a bit of fiber (but still better than fruit juice)

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

That’s definitely true, except bananas. Sorta. They actually tasted better and sweeter, they now taste more bland. Regardless I think it’s part of a nutritious balanced diet and I would recommend Dragonfruit, really good, Kiwis too

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have little problems drinking fruit juice and i will sometimes eat it cooked but eating it raw gives me stomach problems. Obviously if you can you should eat fruit, it's very healthy because they generally have more vitamins than other foods.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Also very important to wash your fruit before consuming it, but if that still messes with your stomach then it isn’t worth it I suppose, too bad, fruit is great

[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

You might be really deficient in fiber, which fruit have a lot of and fruit juice has none of. Getting a good fiber intake after a prolonged period of time of being deficient will be problematic and causes a lot of people to stop before they can overcome that.

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I highly doubt that. I eat plenty of grains and vegetables which are higher in fiber than most fruit. My guesses are it's either to do with the fructose content or the high acidity. Cause concentrated fruit juices don't always sit that well with me either, i usually water them down by at least 50%.

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I have been vegetarian for like seven years or so? Too lazy to go vegan, but the vegans are right.

[-] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Same situation, down to the years! 🥦

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Well, rest easy knowing you’re healthier and more principled than most, me included

[-] iridaniotter@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

haha thanks but unfortunately my diet is not that healthy

[-] roux@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

I'm vegan btw.

One year anniversary is coming up in 2 months.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Happy early anniversary on that, much respect 🫡

[-] roux@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago
[-] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago
[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Is it only almonds, because I’m partial to cashews myself

[-] American_Communist22@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

just almonds, its very strange

[-] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I’m allergic to a very popular fruit, and my allergy is fairly uncommon.

I also hate cilantro because I have that gene that makes it taste like soap.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I’ve only heard about it, never spoke to anyone who had it, do you taste it if it’s in tacos or something spicy? Dumb question probably but I’m embarrassingly curious about the answer

[-] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

If there’s enough of it, I can taste it. It’s still unpleasant but I’ve gotten used to it.

[-] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 10 months ago

Cilantro-soap gene haver here. For me, if you put just a bit on any dish, it is ruined.

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

I really hate fried onion.

[-] Jennie@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I'm vegan and have been for well more than a year now. I don't see myself backtracking on it. I went vegan obviously for animal rights reasons but there were also other concerns which led to me making the step, such as environmentalism (the animal farming industries being one of the biggest causes of climate change, land usage etc) and even humanitarianism (these industries frequently exploit immigrants and have been caught using child labour, they also have one of the highest PTSD rates of any industry).

[-] SovereignState@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Vegetarian. Would go vegan, but it takes a more principled person than myself, at least for now.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I would need to get some Bucket List Meals in me before I could go vegetarian, I would have too much regret otherwise

[-] Rasm635u@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I don't have any dietary restrictions afaik

[-] Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

No, neither health nor preference related. I will eat virtually anything, and have found very very few things I don't like.

The only thing I won't eat is something endangered, for conservation reasons.

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Yea I never really felt comfortable eating Veal

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

There's the obvious self imposed diet, but I'm also allergic to a few things, like cashews.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I'd say about 95% of what I eat is vegan. I started doing it for environmental reasons but after a while it was about animal welfare as well. I used to be a guy who'd say he'd never give up meat but it was so much easier than I thought.

[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

The other 5% is vegetarian btw, no meat/fish/whatever

[-] Arachno_Stalinist@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I have an allergy to shrimp, and I am probably also allergic to other crustaceans so I avoid eating those as well.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

Vegan because of high cholesterol that is hereditary in my family. It was hard to get used to at first but I've adjusted and also lost a lot of weight in the process.

[-] lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

I tried being vegan, but it is hard when nobody in family is a vegan too, so I stopped, sadly. I also tried, for quite a long, fasting -- I ate nothing one day per week, and this helped me to loose more than 15 kg. Now, I have too much duties but I want to come back to it.

[-] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Some forms of non-homogenous food are inedible for me. Like, strawberry yoghurt, or most vegetables.

Or those stupid carrot pieces in soup. Can't they grind that shit down like everything else?

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Basically anything that super processed or refined like sugars, carbs, and especially cooking oils. I feel so much better after cutting that stuff out. I already do low carb due to family history of diabetes but after I read up on how messed up the cooking oil industry is, and how these cooking oils are so extremely refined, I cut those out too. Made a world of difference. I primarily only use cold pressed oil now like coconut, olive, palm, and avacado. When I have carbs it's primarily from fresh vegetables and occasionally fruits. Basically most of what I eat are things that haven't undergone a lot of processing and I make a lot of stuff myself. Like the biggest difference between the diets of old humans vs modern, when you look at the global history of diets, is how precessed the food was. Some cultures ate tons of carbs through farming tubers, some eat almost entirely meat and animal products, and tons of cultures that eat a huge mix of everything in-between, and most all of them were healthier than we are now (from a diet health standpoint).

The one big difference that sticks out is we eat a bunch of shit now that we can't normally get without a ton of crazy processing. Like shit we mine out of a certain rock hundreds of feet below the earth, or something we get through multiple extractions from a plants that then fermented into a sugar substitute after it's then chlorinated. Or shit like cottonseed and rapeseed oil which comes out of an otherwise inedible seed they have to heat at high temps repeatedly while pressing out the oil, then mix and filter with petroleum solvents to create an oil that doesn't smell like rancid dogshit. It's all this processing and crazy shit we do to foods now.

[-] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Tons of shit because autism :<

[-] ButtigiegMineralMap@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Interesting, I never would’ve guessed, thanks for sharing🫡

[-] FlightSimEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Literally the same for me. I don't eat most vegetables and I do not eat wet food (soup, sauces, etc.).

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml -1 points 10 months ago

Grapefruit actually interacts with tons of medications, actually.

Also it just tastes like worse oranges so I don't know why anyone eats it lol

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