Question:
The latest news about chocolate ... snip ... flavonoids, which
reduce the stickiness of platelets, inhibiting blood clotting and
reducing the danger of coronary artery blockages.
Answer:
I think these (flavonoids) are the same substances which make chocolate a
"trigger" for many of us. The better the quality of the chocolate, the more
of these flavonoids contained. Life can be cruel.
For me it's weird because I never get migraines from chocolate, like bars
and candy and stuff. However when I eat mole, which is a Mexican dish with
chicken and a sauce made from quite a bit of pure chocolate, I get them
every time. I've never taken the time to figure out what might be different
between mole and other chocolates I eat. I just stay away from mole. Which
is disappointing because it's pretty good. Here is a possible answer for why mole nails your head.
If they use any chicken bullion in the recipe that could be your
problem, only one kind that I know of isn't loaded with MSG,, and that
one has a fairly high amount of autolised yeast, which is high in
maturally occurring MSG. Also most canned chicken broth is very high
in MSG if that is in the recipe for mole. the most likely other one would be "autolised yeast extract" or
"autolised yeast extract" although any of the 4,, MSG, autolised
yeast, yeast extract or autolised yeast extract could be in any
comercially prepared sauce as long as the lable, says, "spices",
"natural favors", or "atrificial flavors" as well Another possibility is that it has to do with the QUANNTITY of chocolate.
There's probably far less of those nasty flavoinoids in a candy bar, than in
an entire entre of something smothered in that lovely (I agree) mole sauce
That's an interesting suggestion. I never really thought about the MSGs as
possibly the culprit here. I have read in other postings people mentioning
MSGs as a possible trigger. However I don't remember thinking that any of
the foods listed I ever had a problem with.
I guess to narrow that down would be to find out if anything else I eat had
chicken broth in it. Doesn't chicken noodle soup also have high
concentrations of MSGs? If so, I've never had a problem with that.
Or what other common foods have high concentrations of MSGs that I might
compare it with?
Yeah that's the thing, I've never had a problem with other chicken dishes
that I can remember. And as I mentioned in my previous post, foods really don't trigger migraines
for me. I kept a very detailed headache journal for a long time trying to
nail down certain foods or combinations of foods, and nothing ever stood
out. My migraines are triggered mostly by my sleep problems, stress, not
eating soon enough (low sugar levels), or naturally occurring cycles. If
there was a pattern in my migraines, it was either so random or such a
combination of things that I didn't see it.
But I noticed the mole trigger before I ever kept a journal. It was a fairly
obvious connection after about the third or fourth time when I finally
realized what was causing them. And it was prepared by different people all
but one time, so it was three different recipes. All of them triggered one.
I've never noticed an allergy to cinnamon. One of my weaknesses is a large,
fluffy cinnamon bun. I've never noticed a pattern there. And I looked at the
recipe my wife prepared, and I didn't see anything in there that I didn't
eat in something else at some point or another. Either it's the combination
of things that I don't have elsewhere or something else. My wife is Mexican,
so I've had quite a few Mexican dishes. Many of them have similar spices and
things. None of them has ever given me this reaction.
