A very clear and interesting piece about histamine intolerance can be found at allergynutrition.com. I especcially like the picture, that shows how the threshold can get passed, as a bucket model. The bucket slowly fills up with histamine until it streams over, and symptoms come into existence.
Meat
The meats comes down to only fresh, unprocessed, unsmoked, unaged, uneverything meat. Just pure and fresh meats, and be especially careful with seafood and pork.
Weirdly I’ve started to eat a lot of fish, I was told these are generally okay when frozen. So I stocked my freezer with loads of bags of frozen fish from the supermarket. As with chicken, I love how I can just throw it the oven with some herbs, or put them in the tajine.
Processed meats/Smoked meats llll l
- sausage llll l
- hotdog l
- salami llll l
- ham lllll
- bratwurst l
- bacon lll
- smoked beef
Pork/Swine ll
Chicken liver ll
Chicken l
Mincemeat l
Left-over cooked meats ll
Vacuum packed meats ll (these are often several weeks old.)
Aged meats l
Smoked fish lllll l
- Herring llll l(people come on, you don’t smoke herring you eat them raw with onions!!)
- Anchovies lll
- Sardines lllll
- Mackerel llll
All fish llll
Shell fish llll
Tuna fish lll
Cat fish l
Salmon ll – fresh <36h v
Skipjack l
Mahi Mahi l
Amberjack l
Bluefish l
Bonito l
Marlin l
And a list of most of the meats that are allowed, for variation, and amazement purposes I still never ate muskrat, even though here in the Netherlands it’s a well known dish, but honestly I haven’t got a clue where to find it. 😉
Calf meat v
Lamb meat v
Horse meat v
Sheep meat v
Goat meat v
Chicken turkey v
Dove v
Duck v
Ostrich v
Partridge v
Fowl v
Rabbit v
Hare v
Deer v
Muskrat v
Frog legs v
Tilapia v
Pangasius v
Herring v
Lists:
http://www.michiganallergy.com/food_and_histamine.shtml
http://www.urticaria.thunderworksinc.com/pages/lowhistamine.htm
http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T444777.html
http://www.allergyuk.org/fs_histamine.aspx
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/85/5/1185
http://www.esfbchannel.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=15777&sid=822c9837c371230e99db2d80ef9f56be
http://web.archive.org/web/20070830124324/users.bigpond.net.au/allergydietitian/fi/amines.html
List from Dutch nutritionist society.

Veggies and legumes
Over the veggies most lists advice the same. Since there are many, many vegetables allowed, I only counted those from the forbidden sections. Always mentioned are eggplant, tomato, sauerkraut and spinach. Often are pumpkins, mushrooms, pickled and canned vegetables and soy products mentioned as well.
The nutritionist I see allows me to eat most of the beans and vegetables from cans, glass and when dried. But these are not okay if they come with additives, sauce and/or herbs. She’s also the one behind all the ok’s in the legumes section. I buy most of my vegetables fresh or frozen. So haven’t yet tried if these are indeed alright to eat. She also only wants me to avoid champignons (White buttons) in the mushroom section.
The heated eggplant thing also comes from my nutritionist, apparently with cooking the molecule that works as a histamine liberator will fall apart. It’s most often mentioned as a histamine containing vegetable though, so once again she left me wondering. I don’t like eggplant anyway, so I wouldn’t want to try either.
What I did try, but is not written down, is she allows Italian tomato’s if sieved. I must confess these give fewer problems, but can still make me itchy.
Vegetables
Eggplant llll lll
(thoroughly heated eggplant) v
Tomato lllll lll
Sauerkraut llll lll
Spinach lllll lll
Champignons l
Mushrooms ll
Pumpkin llll
Pickled/Canned vegetables llll
Cabbage v l
Pickled cabbage
Soy and Soy products lll
Legumes
Broad Beans v ll
Chicken peas ll
Lentils v ll
Red Beans v ll
Soy Beans v ll
Lupin seeds l
Lists:
http://www.michiganallergy.com/food_and_histamine.shtml
http://www.urticaria.thunderworksinc.com/pages/lowhistamine.htm
http://www.digitalnaturopath.com/treat/T444777.html
http://www.allergyuk.org/fs_histamine.aspx
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/85/5/1185
http://www.esfbchannel.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=15777&sid=822c9837c371230e99db2d80ef9f56be
http://web.archive.org/web/20070830124324/users.bigpond.net.au/allergydietitian/fi/amines.html
List from Dutch nutritionist society.
