Purple Cauliflower Histamine Information

Purple cauliflower, a variant of the common cauliflower, contains several nutrients that are important for our health, including dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and vitamin B6. From a purely nutritional perspective, consuming purple cauliflower is beneficial due to its high antioxidant content, particularly anthocyanins which give this cauliflower its color and contribute significantly to its antioxidant capacity. However, when investigating its relationship with histamine levels, there is currently no specific research suggesting that purple cauliflower has a significant impact on histamine, neither as a histamine-rich food, a histamine liberator, nor as an inhibitor to histamine breakdown. Most foods within the brassica family (which includes cauliflower) are generally considered low in histamine content and are typically not classified as histamine liberators. Conversely, they're also not documented for assisting in the breakdown of histamine. As purple cauliflower shares the same family as regular cauliflower and there are no specific components exclusively found in it that are known to impact histamine levels, it's reasonable to assume that it likely behaves the same way as the common cauliflower in this regard. That being said, within the broad spectrum of different individuals' responses to food, some people may experience a histaminic response to cauliflower or other foods on an individual basis. Such a response could potentially be due to a host of factors, including the way the food has been prepared or stored, the individual's unique microbiome makeup, or the individual’s overall health and histamine load at the time of eating. This product has not been researched well enough to publish any definitive information on its effects on histamine levels, our team is working hard on this. Data will be available soon. **References:** 1. American Institute for Cancer Research (n.d.). Foods that fight cancer: Cauliflower. Retrieved from https://www.aicr.org/cancer-prevention/food-facts/cauliflower/ 2. Maintz, Laura, and Natalija Novak. “Histamine and Histamine Intolerance.” American Society for Clinical Nutrition, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, May 2007, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17490952/. 3. The Histamine Intolerance Awareness Team. (2020). The Food Diaries: Brassicas. Retrieved from https://www.histamineintolerance.org.uk/about/the-food-diary/the-food-diary-brassicas/