A comment from Heather, about citric acid and yeast<\/a> (see Even Yeast free bread may still have yeast<\/a>) put me on to learning that some people have a citric acid intolerance.<\/p>\n That lead me to a bit of research, which lead me to Vicy Clarke’s Citric Acid Intolerance page.<\/p>\n The problem with having a citric acid intolerance is that citric acid is so hard to avoid, at least if you eat prepared foods.<\/p>\n Sounds familiar from avoiding gluten<\/a>.<\/p>\n Citric acid is used as a flavoring, preservative and catalyst for other preservatives. And probably other uses as well.<\/p>\n As with managing any allergy, reading ingredients is a must.<\/p>\n Also, doing your own cooking makes it much easer to manage a citric acid intolerance. This may seem like a drag if you aren’t much of a cook, but the good news is that (a) this forces you towards a more healthy diet and (b) it really isn’t that hard to learn how to cook. <\/p>\n Vitamin B5 may help reduce reactions should you accidentally eat a citric acid containing food. This is confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n These links are to a static website that appears unmaintained, although it has very useful information. Please let me know if the links stop working.<\/p>\n Some people are sensitive to citric acid. Some information and links to other websites …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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