tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post8446204093542928900..comments2024-03-27T09:55:23.143-07:00Comments on Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: Burpless CucumbersJohn Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-31921587811570329212011-07-07T01:02:52.301-07:002011-07-07T01:02:52.301-07:00Cucumbers are indeed flatulogenic. I usually do no...Cucumbers are indeed flatulogenic. I usually do not have any food problems at all - but cucumbers make me gasy. Two days ago my wife cleaned out the fridge. We do not throw any food away, so we are always on the outlook for alternative uses of food that is about to spoil. Usually we feed it to our livestock. But that day, my wife decided to try to make a smoothy drink by throughing a ripe pineapple and a very ripe cucumber into the blender. It turned out to be a very tasty combination and I drank a lot of it, without knowing that it contained an entire cucumber. As a result, my stomach grew very bloated. Since it appears that the flatulogenic components also are very foam-generating, there was very little pain/pressure relief in burping nor farting. I just had to wait out the passage of the food, until it had left the digestive tract in an unpleasant foamy manner...Kristian Stokholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10497036108968751297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-10675115226027553442010-07-22T11:34:59.061-07:002010-07-22T11:34:59.061-07:00Dr. Halamka,
This is a wonderful bit of trivia th...Dr. Halamka,<br /><br />This is a wonderful bit of trivia that will end an argument in my house over my cucumber choices for our organic garden.<br /><br />You continue to amaze me, I read daily looking for more news on HIT, MUC, going Vegan & Green and at the appropriate time, a nugget of wisdom like today to enrich me in a way I would have never expected. <br /><br />Thanks for all you do for the HIT community and for settling the discussion on burping cucumbers (for reference, all 7 cucumber plants in our garden would be considered burpless)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com