Just an Ol' Gasbag

Today's Apple: A Golden Delicious

Image 'n' text courtesy o' the fine
 folks at All About Apples

Golden Delicious

Parentage / Origin: Chance seedling of Grimes Golden; West Virginia, Introduced in 1900
View list of Golden Delicious sport varieties

Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid September to late October; Season: October - December

Description: Large conic golden yellow fruit. Firm, crisp, juicy, flavorful flesh. Mild sweet distinctive flavor. High quality all purpose. Shrivels in storage. Requires gentle picking, bruises easily.

Tree Characteristics: Moderately vigorous, round headed tree with wide crotch angles. Bears very young and annually if thinned. Self fertile.

Woke up this morning with a terrible case o' gas. I took two Tums 'fore leaving the house, 'n' then had a peppermint candy after I got to work, but they don't seem to be helping that much. Could it be 'cause o' three straight days of apples? Maybe it was 'cause o' that banana 'n' coffee I had fer breakfast. I know it couldn't o' been 'cause o' that bag o' chocolate mints I finished off 'fore bedtime last night.

'Cording to chetday.com, eating fruit in combination with other foods, such as, just fer instance, the rest of a bag o' chocolate mints, can cause the body to leave part o' the fruit undigested. That's 'cause it's so busy digesting the other food, chocolate mints, just as an example, that it don't get 'round to fully digesting the apple bits. This can cause the undigested apple bits to ferment, 'n' even rot to some degree, causing a build up o' gas 'n' toxins.

'Cording to Mr. Day, I should be waiting 'bout two hours after a big meal 'fore eating my apples so I can do it on an empty stomach 'n' let 'em get digested completely. This would have been good to know 'fore I started this whole thing, but I guess late is better than never 'n' early late is better than later late. Course, that may mean it wasn't the banana's fault, since that was first thing this morning 'n' most definitely on an empty stomach.

Which don't go too far in explaining how come I seem to get kind o' gassy lots o' mornings after the coffee/banana combination that usually makes up my breakfast. Maybe the acid in the coffee is somewhat to blame. (Though that don't explain how come I had the gas before I ever had the coffee.) Used to be I could drink pots o' the stuff throughout the day. Now I'm down to one cup in the morning 'n' whatever's left o' that cup after I get back home at the end o' the day. ('N' by "cup" I mean a big ol' plastic mug that holds, at least, 16 ounces er more.)

 'Minds me of a feller I worked with once who had a dicken's of a time with his coffee consumption. He loved his coffee 'n' just couldn't get through the day without a cup of it ever' now 'n' then. Problem was, black coffee gave him acid, so he had to add milk to try 'n' neutralize the acid. Unfortunately, milk gave him gas. So he had to choose between whether he wanted to deal with acid er gas all day. Er switch back 'n' forth 'tween the two as the day wore on. Course, giving up coffee altogether was never an option.

Maybe it's just the early results o' my body adjusting to its new regimen of a daily extra fruit. I'm sure there's some changes that my body will have to go through 'fore all's said 'n' done. After all, ever'one always says, "No pain, no gain." It just seems somewhat counterintuitive that you have to start out feeling worse in order to start feeling better. ('N', after more'n five years off the smokes, I'm still waiting fer the benefits o' that change to a "healthier" lifestyle to start kicking in.)