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Does fruit cause diarrhea?
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Yes: Fruit can cause diarrhea in people with irritable bowel syndrome or fructose intolerance.
Answered 1/29/2019
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Usually if...: ...A person's body has an intolerance to one of the components of that fruit. Plums have more natural laxatives than other fruits, but all fruits have some indigestible sugars that keep water from being reabsorbed from the colon and so make stool looser.
Answered 3/11/2016
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