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  • Oh, same problem with me; toms and citrus.  I'm in uk and the weather is too cold now for fruits to ripen even a little, when placed in a sunny window (my habit with all fruit but grapes and berries).

    Shop-bought fruit is almost always unripe, and not all fruits will ripen after picking.

    I ate so many tomatoes this summer, my lips split and bled at the corners!  Same with even a tiny amount of citrus.  Pineapple is impossible - my lips, gums and teeth actually run with blood.

    The problem is unripeness.  I resolved it by eating only baby toms that I can pop in whole, or small segments of clementines etc, not allowing them to touch the lips.

    Btw, mango is sub-acid, not an acid, fruit.

    • The mouth is like a good guard, if it burns you know not to eat it.  I've seen several people say something like "it burned my mouth so I blended it and drank like a smoothie or juiced them to drink, that way I could get it down" and this is a mistake, I even read about one lady saying she did pine-apple island for 10 days knowing they were unripe and burned her mouth so she ate them via smoothie.  After an 8 month trial of regularly eating fruit she knew to be unripe she just could not figure out why her digestion wasn't healing so she gave up on 811rv.  If it burns your mouth it will harm your insides, (that are more sensitive than the mouth), much worse, although you may not feel it as there are limited nerves in the digestive track to alert you. This is why it is so important to read up on how to pick ripe fruit, when the seasons are, where your food is coming from etc. and to listen to your senses; smell, taste, burning mouth ;) etc. etc., they are your personal body guards or immigration officers, don't try to cheat them! :)

      • Ah thank you Shell!  I had better give up toms until summer then; I am not so comfortable with the cherry tom type, they do not feel as good in the digestive tract as the riper large ones I ate in the warm months.  

        Times I have tried fresh pineapple, the sensation in the tum is quite scary - sore and burning, as though my stomach is bleeding too!  It was warning enough, I have not tried since.  

  • They are not ripe oranges.

    Ive had oranges so ripe that you can bit into them and suck out the juice with no lip burn.

    Same with mangoes. Most people eat em unripe.

  • I get this from the peel of oranges from time to time. Usually when the orange is from somebody's garden i can have it big time, to a lesser extent when it is just organic produce and nearly never when it is just your average orange. I have been told it is from the concentration of Limonene (sometimes extracted and used as natural cleaners/degreasers in domestic household products) in the orange peel and is nothing to worry about and might be a good sign of mineral rich oranges.

  • Were they super duper sweet, no sourness?  If not they may have been unripe.

  • Happens to me when I cut oranges into quarters and eat 'em with the peel on. If you want to avoid that, peel an orange properly and place the individual pieces into your mouth so that the peel/zest doesn't make contact with your lips and the surrounding skin. Problem solved.

    • Oh ok, so that's what happened. I cut them in quarters and ate them like that :( 

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