Bex – Potatoes are in the Nightshade food family. So are Tomatoes and peppers and chillies and eggplants. And strangely so is Tobacco, either smoked or chewed! I know u get effected by tobacco and potatoes ….what about tomatoes? Peppers? Chillies? Eggplants? If u effected by potatoes and tobacco then u probably can’t handle the others either.
I know this because I can’t handle any nightshades whatsoever, and I get funked over by passive smoking too…..that was a very low point in my life, finding out it was impossible to be around people that smoke. Very low. Even if I wanted to, I could not go down the pub, (although rules changed now so I could if I wanted to, due smoking ban in uk now.)

Magnesium deficiency is supposed to be the reason, (or one of them, anyway)

Rice is heavily processed; 90pct of the good stuff is removed. I can’t handle white rice, but brown rice is fine for me, (although is does acidify me too much so I avoid that too now… <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />)