The peatiest fruit suggestions
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Interesting (but too bad!) about the urushiol. There's always some underlining aspect about what we eat that is troublesome for some. Maybe there is something to the perspective that our background determines how we react to certain foods, e.g. tropical fruit not being common to a Swiss-French makeup. If I remember correctly, that is not a real Peaty concept — metabolic typing — as it's heavy on genetics.
That is pretty funny — "a processed-food palette". My dad as well. But he's given most of it up, after many years of mild coaxing. Indeed, PUFA is the greatest factor and what I do my best to avoid: but I can only be so strict. Amazingly, I also find myself cooking from scratch. Though, I'm not certain how long I can keep that up, due to schedule. My dad actually loves milk. He usually drinks more than me.
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@Mossy, sorry, I should have been clearer. I’m not allergic to the fruit itself, but the urushiol in the tree sap that gets on the mango’s skin when it’s harvested. I actually grew up on Polynesian (and Cantonese and French) cuisine with tropical fruits like coconut and pineapple as staples. I didn’t have any intolerances until my thyroid crashed in my 20s, and I overcame them by supporting my thyroid and healing chronic gastritis.
There was a time when I entertained nutrigenomics. I developed an allergy (anaphylaxis) to dairy after my thyroid crashed and doctors believed my First Nations ancestry was the cause so I was given a special (and expensive) test to confirm their suspicions, which led to a pharmacy worth of supplements and the elimination of so many foods that I developed even more allergies by further weakening my thyroid and immune system.
It’s great that your dad has given up most of the processed food, and loves milk. Mine is stubborn, but he doesn’t cook and I refuse to feed him lab chow so it only took one Hungry-Man frozen dinner with its questionable meat and sad, little brownie for him to appreciate home cooking. lol I can only be so strict when it comes to PUFA, too. I don’t cook with PUFA-rich fats, but I eat whole food sources like avocado without concern.
