Cassava
Cassava is a low-histamine root vegetable with no known histamine-releasing or blocking properties.
Cassava (also sold as yuca) is generally well tolerated and doesn't appear to contribute to histamine load in the body.
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Cooking is essential — cassava must always be cooked before eating, but that's a food safety matter unrelated to histamine; cooked cassava stays low-risk
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Cassava flour too — products made from cassava flour tend to be well tolerated and can serve as a useful alternative in recipes that might otherwise call for fermented or processed grain-based ingredients
It's a useful starchy base, especially as a substitute in recipes that might otherwise call for higher-risk ingredients.
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References
- SIGHI Food Compatibility List — SIGHI (2026)
- Histamine and histamine intolerance — Maintz & Novak (2007)
- Histamine Intolerance: The Current State of the Art — Comas-Basté et al. (2020)
- Low-Histamine Diets: Is the Exclusion of Foods Justified by Their Histamine Content? — Sánchez-Pérez et al. (2021)
- Histamine Intolerance: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Beyond — Jochum (2024)
- Guideline on management of suspected adverse reactions to ingested histamine — Reese et al. (2021)