Coconut milk & heartburn page

[annadragon]

I've cut down my cream and started using more coconut milk. It gives me heartburn, ick.

Anyone else have this experience? Why would coconut milk cause heartburn?

[OnTheBayou]

I'm no help, I've had no problem. I've had GERD from time to time, but I have to say, no occurrence since going Primal.

[Conan]

Are you putting coconut milk into coffee? If so, it's probably not the coconut milk that is giving you troubles.

[LabRat]

Like Conan said, I think it may depend on what you're swapping coconut milk for cream in. I'm not as sure about how just plain cream breaks down chemically, but milk itself behaves like a buffer solution- when my problems with heartburn were much worse, milk was one of the few things I could eat or drink that would take the edge off a bad day.


So it might not be that coconut milk causes heartburn as that it's not as good at buffering extremes from other sources as what you're replacing.