Carrots - I don't understand.....

[December99]

I love raw carrots but everytime I eat them, my stomach gets this achy feeling. I can eat them when I'm at parties, cooked, in salads, and I don't get this feeling but when I eat them alone I get this UGH in my stomach...it's more like just below my ribcage. Does anyone else have this problem???? Perhaps it's the fiber with them or something.....very strange.

 

[CamColt]

If its the feeling Im thinking of, I have noticed I get that when I eat raw tomatoes, and I never can figure out why. Very strange, indeed.

 

[December99]

It's like I'm almost going to be sick type of feeling. Maybe my stomach is too emtpy when I'm eating them alone. UGH

 

[Serena]

It could be the acid in them. I know it burns my hands.

 

[December99]

I never thought of that Serena...actually I never though of carrots having acid but that would possibly make sense. I don't understand why they don't bother me when I'm eating them in a salad unless they do and I've always just thought it was the lettuce....hmmmmmm....

 

[Serena]

I never thought of them having acid either until the last few years, when it started burning my hands. Those and potatos.

 

[helenabear]

Somehow I thought I was told that carrots help keep an "alkaline environment" and not acidic... it's been too long since i learned about that really, but I do know that I have trouble with that and a few other veggies as well (why I don't eat salads). I was told by my doctor that they are just hard to digest (as is a lot of "roughage" that is out there) and in my case I should avoid all veggies like that raw as much as possible. For me it almost "tears" my stomach up.