AlmiraGulch Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Who wants to take help me figure out which of the following ingredients just gave me the raging headache I have right now? It's awful. I had some grilled chicken nuggets and a diet lemonade from Chick Fil A. It's all I've eaten today, and the headache came on within 10 minutes of finishing the meal. The diet lemonade has Splenda in it, but that's not usually a headache trigger for me at all, so I'm thinking maybe it was something in the chicken. I don't know enough about them to figure out what might cause my head to feel like it's in a vise. If someone has any ideas, please share so I can avoid that ingredient in the future! Chick-fil-A® Grilled Nuggets Add to Meal Calculator Grilled chicken (whole breast filet, seasoning [water, apple cider vinegar, soybean oil, yeast extract, salt, modified corn starch, palm oil, dehydrated garlic, dehydrated onion, corn maltodextrin, sea salt, flavor, sugar, chicken stock, cane molasses, chicken fat, spice, natural flavor {including smoke}, dextrose, lemon peel, citric acid, red bell pepper, orange juice concentrate, grape juice concentrate, natural flavor, paprika, vinegar, xanthan gum, ascorbic acid, and spices]). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 is yeast extract another term for MSG? That is a major migraine trigger. Did a little googling....could very well be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaVT Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Splenda never used to bother me and then it started affecting me adversely, so it could be the lemonade. Hope you feel better soon! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 is yeast extract another term for MSG? That is a major migraine trigger. Did a little googling....could very well be. I was looking for MSG, but I didn't think to look if something else could be that. I wonder if that's the culprit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Here's the thing. There is both "flavor" and "natural flavor" ingredients. Three different doses of it. AKA: we don't want to tell you and the quantities are low enough that the gov agrees we don't have to. Artificial sweeteners are also a very well known cause of many symptoms, including headache. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandragood1 Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Do you eat out often? If not, then almost anything there could be a trigger, even the salt. If so, then I don't see anything unusual for restaurant food. Maybe your headache is allergy related? Check your local pollen and mold counts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 Do you eat out often? If not, then almost anything there could be a trigger, even the salt. If so, then I don't see anything unusual for restaurant food. Maybe your headache is allergy related? Check your local pollen and mold counts. I do actually eat out often, but I haven't eaten out in weeks, and my diet has been completely clean during that time. Nothing processed, no grains, no dairy. Maybe my body has been used to the crap I've been feeding it, and is not rebelling at the reintroduction of fast food? Definitely not environmental allergens. I also haven't had any artificial sweeteners for the past several weeks, so maybe it's the Splenda. I don't know, but it's killing me! I shouldn't have eaten out, but I was desperate and I was hungry. And out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tammi K Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I get migraines from MSG. If it was a processed nugget you can almost guarantee that the is MSG in it. MSG has a couple of dozen names and it hides well, even in plain sight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 MSG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I have a friend who says citric acid is a trigger for her migraines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 I do actually eat out often, but I haven't eaten out in weeks, and my diet has been completely clean during that time. Nothing processed, no grains, no dairy. Maybe my body has been used to the crap I've been feeding it, and is not rebelling at the reintroduction of fast food? Definitely not environmental allergens. I also haven't had any artificial sweeteners for the past several weeks, so maybe it's the Splenda. I don't know, but it's killing me! I shouldn't have eaten out, but I was desperate and I was hungry. And out. If this was your absolute first crap food after weeks of clean eating, it could be *anything*. Or a combination of many. If this was your first reintroduction of grains, you may have just inadvertently discovered a gluten intolerance. Or corn. Or soy. Or... Anything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Since you have eaten clean for weeks, your headache might simply be caused by the bombardment of the fast food. Salt, msg, Splenda...it might just be too much for your system to handle all at once. And since you were really hungry, you might have already been on your way to a headache. Hope you feel better soon. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlmiraGulch Posted September 16, 2015 Author Share Posted September 16, 2015 If this was your absolute first crap food after weeks of clean eating, it could be *anything*. Or a combination of many. If this was your first reintroduction of grains, you may have just inadvertently discovered a gluten intolerance. Or corn. Or soy. Or... Anything. It's probably this. You're likely right. If that's not motivation enough to keep it clean, I don't know what is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kellebelle Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 The past few times my friend has eaten at Chick Fil A, she has gotten a horrible migraine. She believes it is the msg or the soy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trulycrabby Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 "Natural flavour" is MSG. Are you sensitive to MSG? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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