Do you know, I have a mysterious and ill-fated relationships with…

Yes, pineapple! A tropical fruits which are rich in vitamins, enzymes, antioxidants with many health benefits. But for me, the allergic reaction (or side effect, idk?) dominates the whole benefits.
It started when I’m in elementary, I guess. I went to have dinner in PH with my family and then, someone ordered a pizza with pineapple on it. I tried it, unknowingly ate a pineapple on pizza (to be honest I really can’t understand people who eat an unprocessed fruit with carbo??). After awhile, I finally recognize the strange thing on my plate and disposed the pineapple away. I’m still okay until 15-20 minute-ish later, my throat felt so dry and my lips were hot and a bit itchy (but still bearable).
Hence, I started to hate pineapple and considered it as my food allergy to avoid it as much as possible. Many people wonder how can I allergic to pineapple, especially when there are jars of Nastar in my house and yet I never tried it (until now😢). I know IT IS SO GOOD. I can imagine it, and recently I tried eating pineapple jam. Oh, of course unknowingly 🙂
It happened during my third year in college. My friend offered me to sample her home-made pie. It’s Christmas soon, I really want to have a pie instead. She explained all of the variants and I said yes when she said she has meat variants too, not just fruits. Thanks to my carelessness, I got the fruit pie as a sample. How stupid I am to think that she will give me the meat one just because I said okay when she explained the meat variant haha. When I opened it, I saw a dark yellowish color. I was afraid, but I tried to think positively that was not a pineapple pie (another stupid assumption I know, which fruit jam has dark yellowish color beside pineapple omg). I ate it and IT WAS SO GOOD I wanna cry. I can say that it was the first, the last, yet the best pineapple pie I had. I’d eaten half of the pie when I’m finally sure it was pineapple. But yeah, I kept eating it anyway haha. At first, I think it will be okay to eat the processed one aka a jam. Then 30 minute-ish later. my throat was soo dry and I started to feel feverish.
So, the jam version is a no no too I guess. To be honest it shaken me a lot after I know the pineapple jam is good. On several occasions, I really have the urge to try eating it again 😦
After suppressed it a lot, I give another chance to pineapple. I got a home-made fruit salad from my sister-in-law. And you know what, I almost–unknowingly–eat the pineapple, again. I’ve already put it on my plate so I must eat it (especially in this kind of situation, I don’t wanna risk anyone by sharing food). I disposed the pineapples and ate the rest. I could taste the pineapple tho. An okay time last until I went to bed room, watched a movie, and passed out. I’m not the type who can sleep easily and that time I couldn’t make myself awake. I woke up at 10 or 11 pm with a super dry throat (I drank 3 bottles of water, it’s not helping). I decided to ignore it (actually, I’m afraid it was corona instead of allergic reaction haha) and then washed my face, brushed my teeth, re-watched the movie, and slept again at 12-ish. Wow, I slept a lot that day👏
The next day, I woke up feeling sluggish with puffy eyes for a whole day 🙂 Thank God it’s weekend.
I really don’t know what’s wrong with me and pineapple. People won’t believed when I said I allergic to it, and neither do I. I did a lil’ research: pineapple is not in the list of food allergen, but the symptoms I had is the same with the side effects of having too much pineapple. The question is, I never have more than a bite of pineapple (fruit), but yeah for the jam is a whole pie actually haha is it a lot?
Just now, I ate the fruit salad again (after my mom disposed all the pineapples) and I’m still okay while I’m writing this blog. I got a dry throat as usual but not as long as before. I couldn’t taste any pineapple so I think I’m gonna be okay? Let’s see what will happen tomorrow! If I’m okay, must I give a chance to this relationship again? I still wanna try Nastar tho.
♥ 4.29.20.IT ♥