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Rebekah's avatar

In my experience glass noodles are indigestible unless cooked for way longer than the package suggests. I usually end up cooking at least twice as long! When I ate them the first time I had intense and acute stomach pain as you describe. Just something to consider!

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Oh interesting. I never considered that. They listed 6-8 minutes depending on brand, I think I generally did 8-9 minutes. Hadn't thought of "overcooking" so much.

Does the extra cooking remove the FODMAPs or soften them up or something?

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Rebekah's avatar

I’m really not sure! I think it’s more about gelatinizing the starch? Aka softening them up more. I haven’t eaten more than one serving a day so maybe I would encounter problems if I tried that, but by overcooking them I find that they digest quite easily.

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Convivial's avatar

Can you try glass noodles made from rice or mung beans? They can also be extremely low in protein and fibre, although not nil like sweet potato noodles. Also I think boiling them in bone broth rather than just water seems to help digestion - as does over cooking as mentioned by Rebekah - I cook mine for 20 mins.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I suspect if I did the rice ones, it would be fine. But they tend to have the equivalent protein that rice does, so might as well just do rice haha. I suppose for the convenience factor.

For mung bean, all the ones I could find were at least a mix of sweet potato and mung, I didn't see any 100% mung bean ones. Do you have a link/brand?

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Convivial's avatar

Longkou does a pure mung bean noodle and a mix of mung bean and pea protein noodles, and the latter is still v low protein. V cheap and these cook v quickly.

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Convivial's avatar

Mind you, I am in the UK - so not sure if this is available where you are.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I did find one that is pea & mung bean. Will try that one today or tomorrow.

So far, rice noodles have given me zero issues.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

So I tried the mung bean & pea glass noodles. Not as terrible as sweet potato glass noodles, but about 1/2 as bad. I ended up throwing an already cooked & sauced (!) bowl away and put on the rice cooker after midnight last night because I was starving but couldn't eat more glass noodles.

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Convivial's avatar

Oh dear - back to the drawing board. One thing you might be able to try is making pasta or noodles out of the Caputo gluten flour that Brad talks about? Making these may not be your thing, though.

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Mactoul's avatar

How do you know your adipose linoleic profile?

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I do lots of OmegaQuant Complete tests. Check out my last few posts, I mention a lot of it there.

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Julian's avatar

You know, this has me really curious about how you'd respond to straight potatoes these days. Would be interesting to see if you have the same reaction if you go potato diet for a day.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Haha at this point I might just never try potato ever again! There go my dreams of tallow fries diet..

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Julian's avatar

If I've been following well, this has been your only recent (mostly de-PUFA'd) experience with potatoes, and it was in a very processed form that might come with all manner of caveats. You don't even need to go full potato diet—from this experience it sounds like you'd know pretty fast if they work for you. I really want the potato diet to work because it'd be so easy lol

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

Trust me, I wanted it to work too!

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The Other End of the Galaxy's avatar

Thanks for reporting on this painful experience! One typo: At the start of the last paragraph in the '2 day dry fast washout' section, I think 'wast' should be 'fast' (unless there's a play on words I missed!).

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

oh, yea. Thanks!

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sam van's avatar

Great post as usual. Have you considered chemicals on/in the sweet potatoes or during processing? Also, consider the bean approach ... when staring with a new bean, I start very small, like a few beans, then more, and more, until I can eat any amount with gas. You could be right about FODMAPS for yourself, as though you are 'allergic' to these types of foods in large quantities.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

The ingredients claimed it was organic and only a single ingredient, sweet potato starch.

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Stephen Coda's avatar

If you're going to do beans and meat a la Grant Generaux, some people find they can eat the canned beans but run into problems with those cooked from dried due to canning changing the fibre profile. I think I'm one of those, but I need another shot at the dried beans to confirm.

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Experimental Fat Loss's avatar

I've done a little bit of beans from the can, but really small amounts. If you look at Grant's picture, he's got like 12 beans in one meal haha. See the picture here: https://ggenereux.blog/2022/05/03/2022-mid-year-update/

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Stephen Coda's avatar

Yeah that's not a lot. I'd have similar similar quantities of beans mixed in with ground beef.

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