Interesting discussion.
Last year I finally got back to what I knew was helpful to me. Gluten , dairy. potato , artificial flavours,colours. and preservative free. and low on salycilates
I tried to test salicylated and amines (thru elimination and challenges) but found after a while the sulphates (in vegatables that were left) were a real problem and stepped back from those, and returned to sals I thought I'd handled before.
I agree with Smile sugar isn't all the same. I've looked a little at the low glycose index foods - (not a quick spike of blood sugar) Recently I found some people can't digest certain fruit or vegetable sugars and there is a pathology breath test for these. (don't ask me - I know no more than that.)
I read the % sugars in foods. <10% in cereals is better than the 30+% in most. And totally avoid sweeteners. Seemingly the body acts as if its real sugar.
Personally my health is better without sugar. And a little can be like stirring an addiction leading to more and more excuses. I once read of one other person with the same problem. Mostly I have done it since late Oct. It took 2+ months to start to really show results. and now I can better see things, irritations, cause and effect. before the reaction was continual.
I'm not recommending that for anyone else. I used have exceeding low blood sugar. Though my blood sugars are more normal now I still need to abstain for the sake of my mental health. It took almost 20 yrs to come to that decision.
I got some probiotics and enzymes but haven't been consistant in using them.
A dietian once told me real test for intollerence was abstainance (of whatever) for 2wks (I think longer would be better) then eat heaps of it an see if you get a reaction.
I could do with checking out a few things that I eat. particularly "burpy" food. I need get back off stone fruit too.
(OK fruit for me are peeled delicious apples and pears, bananas. I have added pawpaw (paypa?) mango and figs, occassionally watermelon. I think I'm ok with manderin I could test those I guess.
My goal is to stay off what doesn't agree with me, to build muscle without losing weight. I bought some scales that claim to measure hydration , fats, muscle, bone. I guess the better test of muscle is how easily I can do other things. And to get to the gym AND yoga classes. ugg. its all a stretch for me.