Starfruit/carambole

[Fluuux]

Hi fiends,

As starfruit can be toxic for kidneypatients, when you go out to eat, are at a dinner etc do you always ask if there are starfruit in the food? I guess maybe you need to eat quite a bit for it to be toxic (I'm not sure) so maybe it's overly cautious I don't know. What do you think?

Linnéa

[MAS_Nurse]

Hello Fluuux,

We are sorry but have not experienced this type of intolerance before.

Can any of our other members assist with this query please?

[Fluuux in reply to MAS_Nurse]

I hope people are aware of it, maybe I'm being to cautious with not eating anything that has it in the ingridients but at least you shouldn't eat it straight up

[Teshie27]

Might as well avoid it.

National Kidney Foundation agrees that it's harmful. See:

kidney.org/atoz/content/why...

[Fluuux in reply to Teshie27]

Yeah I know, just kind of wondering of diligent you have to be in that avoidance