Foods That Cause Heartburn - Avoid the Big Three
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If you suffer from heartburn, you are undoubtedly well aware that there are some foods that cause heartburn. Often, people
can tell from their own experience which food they need to avoid (or at least cut down on).
However, sometimes symptoms are intermittent so we can eat a food once without problem but another time suffer for
hours later but can't be sure that it was the food that caused it.
Or it's hard to tell just what food we ate as part of a meal it was that caused the heartburn and indigestion.
To help you decide what diet changes to consider, here are the big three foods that cause the most problems for most
people.
The leading culprit in most surveys of heartburn suffers is the tomato, in particular tomato sauces. Some people who can't
tolerate tomato sauce will be able to eat fresh tomatos (thank heavens - I'd have trouble giving up fresh tomatoes in the
summer).
It's worth trying to cut out all tomato products for a while and see how you feel. If you're better, then you know what the
problem is. You can then try to reintroduce some tomato product and see how you tolerate them.
After all, tomatoes have lots of nutritional value, especially lycopene, so it's good to keep some in your diet if you can.
You may fine that you can drink tomato juice with breakfast without difficulty but not do so well with pasta swimming in
tomato sauce at night.
Another common problem food is coffee. The coffee is irritating itself, plus it seems to aggravate the tendency for gastric
content to back up into the esophagus.
Again, doing without it for a while will let you know if this is a problem for you.
The last of the big three is onions, especially raw. As tasty as they are, some people just can't tolerate them. The situation
here is the opposite of tomatoes. Cooked tomatoes are more likely to be a problem than rare, whereas some people who
can't eat raw onions do tolerate cooked onions.

Those are the big three. A close follow-up is any carbonated drink. The expanding bubbles increase pressure in the
stomach and therefore increase reflux.
Of course, there are a lot of other foods that might be causing a problem. This is just a starting point. In the end, the best
answers are going to come from your own experience even though they may be a bit of trial and error.