Mondays, as always here on the blog, we build your grocery list with one food, focusing on this month’s main topic - histamines.

So let’s dive in to one last of those best foods to help you move through histamine mediated troubles with a bit more ease.

CANTALOUPE.

It’s summertime. Do you really need an excuse to eat more fruit? Seems like the perfect season to do so!

But for those who want to know the why, here are my reasons:

BECAUSE VITAMIN C

Vitamin C is a brilliant anti-histamine on its own, and one cup of cantaloupe provides you with enough vitamin C for the whole day. Vitamin C helps reduce histamine levels in the blood (1).

Bonus points here too, as vitamin C is one of the nutrients needed to make that important DAO enzyme at the gut level. How does this play in to histamine issues? That’s the enzyme that breaks down histamine coming in through your gut. When you can better make this enzyme, now you are better able to break down histamine coming in through your diet, reducing the histamine mediated symptoms currently troubling you.

BECAUSE INFLAMMATION REDUCING

Vitamin C is a free radical scavenger, meaning it’s used in the clean up as a result of inflammation. If you understand that low grade chronic inflammation is one of the root pieces to the picture of histamine troubles, then you’ll understand how important this Vitamin is in the picture of histamine things. Real food for the win!

BECAUSE HYDRATION

When the body is dehydrated, your production of histamine increases. Cantaloupe is 90% water! Eating fruit can help you prevent dehydration, which can go miles in reducing histamine.

Bonus points for you here too: the water comes with some solid electrolytes that help you better absorb the water found in the fruit. Think sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium. Small amounts, but these electrolytes (minerals!) help you better hydrate, and help balance the fluid between cells and inside of cells.

One of the things to know about cantaloupe: it’s a low histamine fruit, to boot. What’s not to love here?

Have some with your breakfast. Cut a cantaloupe, and have pieces ready to grab from the fridge when it’s snack time. Build skewers for a side at meals with cantaloupe + honeydew melon if you can find + cucumber chunks. Use a melon baller to scoop balls out of the fruit, and build a delicious salad with that at the dinner table with arugula + minced fresh mint + goat cheese if you can tolerate.

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*This is not medical advice.