Low-Histamine Alternatives
Fresh meat. Fresh fruit, but with limited citrus and plantains, which are similar to bananas. Fresh vegetables, but with limited tomato, eggplant, and spinach.
Game and wild meats are likely to have higher levels of histamine than farmed meat, eaten fresh. Fish – mackerel, tuna, sardines, anchovies, smoked and canned fish, seafood and shellfish as well as any whole fish that has not been gutted within 30 minutes.
Beef is low histamine only if it is fresh or frozen. Like all meat and poultry products, beef is highly perishable and will form histamine rapidly. Avoid ground, marinated, smoked, aged and/or canned beef.
If you are very sensitive, you may want to hold off on grilling as a cooking method. I prefer using an instant pot to keep histamine levels low. With an instant pot, you can cook something from its frozen state. Meat can cook from frozen to plated in anywhere from 45-90 minutes.
Storage and cooking
In order to minimise any further development of histamine this meat should be stored frozen, thawed quickly, cooked as soon as thawed, and when cooked eaten immediately, or frozen immediately as a cooked meat.
Follow a low histamine diet that eliminates high histamine foods and calms your body's inflammation. Incorporate fresh foods like fruits and vegetables (avoiding high histamine ones), fresh meat and seafood, and whole grains.
A. Potatoes do not have a high histamine content and do not increase the body's histamine burden. Therefore, most people with histamine intolerance can eat them safely. You can also eat potatoes with additional food sensitivities, such as gluten sensitivity.
Rice is a low-histamine food, which means that rice-based snacks are ideal! In addition to being very low in calories, rice cakes also come in whole-grain versions made from brown rice. For a quick and easy snack, you can eat them just as they are.
What is the most powerful natural antihistamine? Researchers haven't yet established any natural product as the “best” or “most powerful.” Natural antihistamines with the most research backing their use include stinging nettle, vitamin C, quercetin, butterbur, bromelain, and probiotics.
Peanut butter is low histamine but does act as a histamine liberator; in other words, it triggers the release of the body's natural histamine. Every person has unique dietary triggers. Your reaction to peanut butter may be different than someone else's.
Eggs are low in histamines, this makes them ideal for the low-histamine diet.
But bacon is usually smoked and cured, which makes it high histamine. Even uncured bacon has higher histamine seasonings.
Bacon is high histamine as it is usually smoked and cured. Every person has unique dietary triggers. Your reaction to bacon may be different than someone else's.
Eggs are likely suitable for a low histamine diet. Egg yolks are low histamine, and egg whites, while traditionally thought of as being histamine liberators, are likely friendly for a low histamine diet as well.
White Bread is likely suitable for a low histamine diet. White Bread is likely low in histamine and other amines and does not trigger release of the body's natural histamine.
Drinking plenty of water every day is essential for all bodily functions, including the regulation of histamine levels. Water does aid in the removal of histamines from the body as more that 95% of excess histamines are removed from the body through the urine.
Antihistamines block cells from seeing histamine and can treat common allergies. Medicines like steroids can calm the inflammatory effects of allergies.
Oats are typically considered a low histamine food, but be mindful of personal sensitivities. If you are coeliac, then be sure to use certified gluten free oats. Use toppings that are suitable for a low histamine diet.
Cream cheese is low histamine. Fresh dairy products like milk and butter are lower in histamine than aged products like aged cheese. Every person has unique dietary triggers. Your reaction to cream cheese may be different than someone else's.
An intolerance to this chemical happens when the body cannot break down enough of it in the intestines, causing histamine levels in the blood to rise. This typically results from having low levels of an enzyme called diamine oxidase (DAO), which is the primary agent that breaks down digested histamine.