Prepared Foods
Systemic Mastocytosis patients are very sensitive (for lack of a better term) to many foods. In particular, foods which are high in histamine are very dangerous for those of us with this illness. Foods high in nitrates and other preservatives are dangerous for us as well. Typically, frozen foods aren't too bad for us if they were flash frozen without preservatives. For example, frozen vegetables are really just flash frozen cut vegetables... nothing wrong with that, right? Well, nothing is wrong as long as the frozen foods are handled properly. Now, let's move on to frozen prepared foods such as frozen meals, frozen dishes, frozen ravioli, frozen chicken, etc... These prepared foods start off bad for us (Systemic Mastocytosis patients) because they are high in preservatives. These preservatives are known to cause sudden mast cell degranulation which, in turn, causes anaphylaxis. As if that is not bad enough... Now, if these frozen meals are handled properly w