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Thanks everyone so far for your replies. I'm going to try boiling/cooking the fruit (could be an interesting experiment), and cooking my own foods; and nosocorny: I know what you mean; WALNUTS are in everything...even, if I'm not mistaken, Honey Nut Cheerios!

No, in fact I've never known a case of someone being allergic to meat... Although I've found that I can't eat albacore tuna either, and I generally don't eat meat anyway. I'm not worried about my protein consumption at all (I eat a lot of fish)—I just know that I can't keep living on carbohydrates all the time. EDIT: Oh,…