Jean:
Here is the other thing that throws off that theory, too. He will sometimes eat a store bought bread (without molasses) and get no reaction. It does have proprionates. But maybe the amt is less than other prepared breads? It keeps me guessing. And breads also have "nutritional" additives, too. Hmmmm.....
Hi Jean, the theory on the reaction is that they react when they reach a critical level of the chemical in their system, so one reason he might not be reacting from the bread is that a few slices of breads every other day with propinoates might be below his threshold. But if you were to keep feeding him that same bread every day, eventually he would react when the amount of that chemical exceeds his tolerance threshold. So maybe yes, there is less preservative in that bread than others, thus taking longer for the build up to occur in his system.
Just for info I looked up the food challenge protocal for propinoates. It's 4 serves per day for 3 days. I serve = 1 slice of bread. The breads chosen must not contain vinegar or else you may be getting a salicyalte reaction. If dairy, egg or gluten are a problem the breads should not contains these either. So if he survived the three days without a reaction then this groups or preservatives gets the all clear. And of course the challenge will be compromised if one is not on a low chemical diet for all other areas amines/glutamates/sals.
Jenny: great to hear you had some good days! Great that sals aren't a problem!!
BB: too bad about the bannana. What happened? K's favourite finger food by far is roasted wedges of swede and potato in rice bran oil, roasted so they go caramelised.
We are in wait and watch mode. He is doing well with moderate amounts of amines in his diet (bananna and paw paw, just need to give kidney beans ad physillium husks to counteract the constipating effect of bananna and he's ok). The dietcian wants me to keep upping his amines to find the point where he reacts! So now I need to add pork. I'm not sure we have time for that, it could go on for weeks. Of course we are supposed to keep everything else constant and only fiddle with the amines so that means no new foods for either or us. I am thinking that we just do some egg for my diet whilst holding this moderate level of amines constant. Not entirely scientific, but I can' do it properly every time