Tyramine-free diet! Any information!?

SamQKitty

Tyramine-restricted diets are also advised for people on MAO inhibitors, which I've had some experience with.

The main things you have to avoid are red wines; beer; hard cheeses (cottage cheese, cream cheese, farmer's cheese and American cheese are okay), yeast supplements (yeast in baked goods is okay), many pickled things such as pickled herring, sour cream (yogurt is okay); meats cured with salt and nitrates or nitrites, such as summer sausage, pepperoni, salami; fermented cabbage such as saurkraut and kimchee; soy sauce, shrimp sauce and fish sauce; broad bean pods such as fava beans (string beans, wax beans, etc. are okay.) Also, be careful about eating leftovers...don't eat that ham that's been in the fridge for 4 days already!

Your oncologist should have given you a list of foods to avoid. Depending on who you talk to, some things can be eaten on MAOI's, and some can't. Example..I was never told to avoid soy sauce, and I ate plenty of Chinese food and never had a reaction. Some people say to avoid chocolate, and I didn't have to. But it's also true that, for MAOI's at least, the foods that just contain trace amounts of tyramine are apparently not that much of a problem. However, I don't know how severe the reaction would be with the chemo.

Ruth