I dearly love salads. I could live on them... I love everything in them, including Cauliflower, and onions.. but I get terrible, terrible indigestion, ( I have a hiatial hernia) I tried it leaving out the onions, and it still happened.. but last nite I didn't have the cauliflower and I felt fine. Man! I so love cauliflower! Does anyone else have this problem???

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Is the cauliflower raw? Perhaps if you cook it, or at least parboil it, it will digest faster and not cause as much gas?

I once developed an intolerance to apples - I'd been eating green apples daily for a long time. It got to the point where even a sip of apple juice would give me a tummy ache. So, I stopped eating apples altogether. After a while, I could eat them again with no ill effects.

Have you tried broccoflower? It's very similar to cauliflower, except it is a bit smaller and spring green in color. Then there's the romanesca cauliflower - also green, but with spiralling spikes rather than round florets - very remarkable looking!

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haven't tried that... I like raw cauliflower, and I eat it in salads..I'll have to see if I can find the broccoflower.

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if i eat too much califlower... (as in a bowl instead of popcorn during movie watching at home) i get a nasty stomach ache ... it doesnt STOP me from doing it tho...*L*

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I had trouble with that if I ate it raw before going LC, now it isn't as bad, but still happens occasionally. . .I find that if I eat it with something else it doesn't have as big an effect too.

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maybe I just need to keep eating it and see if It stops. I hate to give up my raw cauliflower.

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Lou - As Teelbee says try parboiling it. I often do that when I make crudites out of broccoli cauliflower and baby carrots. I find 2 to 3 minutes of boiling and then plunging the veggies in ice water makes them mpre digestible and they still have a lot of raw crunch left. The trick is to get the boiling time down to what works for you.

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One of the difficulties for me in trying to get enough veggies in is that I get terrible indigestion from both broccoli and cauliflower. I fixed the "fauxtatoes" when the recipe first came out, ate most of it, and was so sick I had to stay in bed the next day! Bummer! I'm also very reactive to iceberg lettuce! Can you believe that?? But I can eat Romaine and other kinds of lettuce. I can't eat onions at all.

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