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Title: react to hot chocolate but not brownies?
Post by Bebop99 on 03/21/14 at 04:08:18

I'm tracking my reactions, and I'm not totally sure yet but it seems like I react to my homemade hot chocolate but not my homemade brownies?
There are the same ingredients in each...?
hot choc: 3 T cocoa powder, 3 tsp sugar, spring water
brownies: for 9 servings: 1/2 c. cocoa powder, 1/2 cup butter, 4 XL eggs, 1/2 c. sugar, ~1/3 c. coconut flour

Unless I'm losing it, all I can think of is with the hot choc. maybe it is too much cocoa at once? Or somehow the liquid state, especially hot, is a trigger? However, I am fine with hot, organic coffee?? :o

Title: Re: react to hot chocolate but not brownies?
Post by KatFromMD on 03/21/14 at 05:02:43

I find that I tend to react to very hot food, so it is possible that you are marginally reactive to the cocoa and the heat just makes you that much more susceptible. I have done well with brownies for over a year, but it seems that I'm reacting slightly to the last batch I made. They're exactly the same as always. Sometimes it seems like there's just no logic to it.
::)

Title: Re: react to hot chocolate but not brownies?
Post by brigitte on 03/21/14 at 17:16:49

Could be the coconut powder.....

Title: Re: react to hot chocolate but not brownies?
Post by Starflower on 03/21/14 at 18:40:30

I agree that heat is probably the culprit. My first trip to the ER for anaphylaxis was caused by a cup of hot tea, followed about two hours later by a big bowl of hot soup (it was February). For months I thought one of the ingredients must be the culprit, but I ruled them all out with a strict elimination diet. And... it was a vegetable soup, so I can't even blame histamine for that one! :D

Heather