homemade bone broth
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Serving size, prep, and portion notes for homemade bone broth
Bone broth is simultaneously the food most often recommended for gut healing and one of the foods histamine intolerant people react to most reliably, which sounds contradictory until you look at how it is made. It grades strongly anti-inflammatory and clean on gluten, lactose, nickel, sulfites, nitrites and nightshades, but moderate on both histamine and free glutamate. A pot of bones simmered for eighteen to twenty four hours, left to cool slowly on the stove and then kept in the fridge for a week is a very long stretch of time in the temperature range bacteria like, and reducing the liquid concentrates whatever has formed. If bone broth makes you feel worse rather than better, that is the mechanism, and the fix is a shorter, fresher, faster-chilled batch rather than giving it up.
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Moderate histamine (graded C), and it tracks time far more than recipe. Heat does not create histamine by itself: bacteria convert the histidine in meat and bones into it, so fresh bones, a short cook, rapid cooling and freezing in portions do more for you than any ingredient substitution / Moderate free glutamate (C). The deep savoury quality of a long simmer is largely glutamate released from meat and connective tissue, which is why a well-reduced broth tastes like it has been seasoned when it has not. People who react to slow cooked stocks, gravies and added MSG often react to bone broth for exactly this reason / The traditional splash of apple cider vinegar added to draw minerals from the bones is itself graded moderate on histamine, as is any wine that goes into the pot. On a strict low histamine batch, leave both out / Onion, garlic, leek and celery make the finished liquid high FODMAP even after you strain the solids out. Fructans are water soluble, so they leach into the broth and stay there, which is the opposite of garlic infused oil where they cannot cross into the fat / Storage is the part people skip. Reheating the same jar every day for a week keeps extending the window for amines to build. Chill the pot fast, ideally in an ice bath, then freeze in single portions and thaw only what you are about to drink
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What does the FODMAP rating mean for homemade bone broth?
Medium FODMAP: portion size matters more than the ingredient itself.
Is homemade bone broth generally well tolerated?
Histamine (Moderate) and Glutamates (Moderate) Start with those if you react.
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