Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Lactobacillus bulgaricus is rated high. It is one of the two classic yogurt cultures, and histamine-producing strains are well documented within this species.
Used with Streptococcus thermophilus to turn milk into yogurt.
An important nuance: whether a culture produces histamine is strain-dependent, not automatic for the whole species. Some L. bulgaricus strains decarboxylate histidine into histamine and some do not, and a tub of yogurt never tells you which strain it used.
It is rated high because you cannot tell them apart from the label, and because fermented dairy as a category behaves very differently from the fresh milk it starts as.
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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)