Dried fruit
June 5, 2006
Ok, that’s it. Once should have been enough. But twice is definitely enough. I just got back from the bathroom, where I violently imposed my will on that poor little piece of porcelain. This was the second time in two weeks that I ate a bunch of dried fruit and had explosive diarrhea. I mean explosive. It wasn’t like a hose squirting out a bunch of water. It was like a gun shooting out a bullet. A bunch of energy behind a [mostly liquid] projectile, and BAM! That’s how it happened.
Now I know: Dried fruit (such as apricots and prunes) are no good.
September 26, 2006 at 4:05 pm
ohh how I do love fried fruit, but yes it does make me visit the potty a few more times then normal. Dried apricots are the WORST in that regard!!! I wonder how many it would take to fuel a car?
November 1, 2006 at 10:49 pm
I bought a special offer 1kg pack of dried apricots last week. I was driving towards my house and sat there munching away on these damn things. I think I must have eaten about 20 or 30 by the time I got home. As I got out of the car I was overcome (and I mean overcome) by a need to exercise a most violent bowel movement. I had to drop my pants right there and let it drop. Luckily I live in a remote rural area, and was able to perform this, what must have been an appalling spectacle, in private. It felt like someone had attached a high pressure hose to me. I have never experienced anything like it in my entire life. For about 6 hours afterwards I was expelling gaseous matter from my rectum of a nature too abominable to even begin to describe. I was tempted to do the teenage ‘lighting up’ thing but, seriously, was afraid I might hurt myself. It eventually culminated in another bowel movement, this time situated on the lavatory, so violent that I had to take a shower afterwards. Thank God I was not up in town or something.
November 2, 2006 at 9:39 am
Chris, you are a god among men. You actually pooped right outside your house? That’s kinda weird. But also kinda cool. I envy you. And your “high pressure hose” analogy is right on. I’ve been there, brother.
December 29, 2006 at 6:32 pm
I ate dried apricots this morning, and now I’m busting out huge farts at work.
January 4, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Melissa, thanks for sharing. May God bless you richly as you also bless others.
April 8, 2008 at 11:01 am
It’s quite funny, but I have the same problem. Apricots are dreadful, I am 13 and my family can always tell when I have farted – because it stinks! It literally feels as if everything I’ve eaten that day is just going to fall out of my butt. Yuck
April 17, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I love dried apricots but they give me the most noxious gas. My coworkers and I were standing outside recently after a fire drill- I ripped an apricot induced fart and my coworker thought the smell came from the sewer.
June 18, 2008 at 11:22 pm
So get this… A couple of days ago I went shopping with my wife and noticed some dried apricots. Thought, hmm… that could be good for a snack a work. I love the things so I ate about 1/3 of the jar the first day. I noticed I had some really bad gas that night but I thought it was something that I ate for lunch that day. Well I didn’t make the connection until today when I ate the other 2/3 of the jar. I started farting at about 5:00PM today and its now 10:30 and it just keeps getting more frequent. Currently I’m farting about every 45 seconds and they are pretty big ones. (smell horrible too! I thought I was going to pass myself out) I finally decided to google dried apricots and see if that was the culprit. Looks like it! My wife says she feels bad but I’ll have to sleep on the couch tonight. I don’t blame her. Maybe I should try and take a dump. That might relieve me a bit.
June 18, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Oh, and I’ll leave the shopping to my wife from now on out!
August 12, 2008 at 7:23 am
ahh it must be apricots.
i also googled apricots after almost sneding an entire train carriage to the casualty ward with my vile, detestable farts, which are still ripping through my chair as i type.
one girl on the train came up to me and said something really stinks around here, and thought that maybe the man standing behind us had shat his pants. i agreed
August 24, 2008 at 7:27 pm
Yeah- my wife and I bought some dried apricots at the grocery store and we had several on the way home. We then proceeded to eat a full serving of leftover stuffed salmon for lunch. A couple hours later both of us were dropping large horrific farts all over town as we ran our errands. We think someone passed out in Kohls from the fish-farts. Moral of the story: don’t mix apricots with leftover salmon.
October 13, 2008 at 10:34 pm
I am so glad that someone posted this! Occasionally I eat dried apricots cause they are so wonderful, but I ate quite a few tonight and it feels like I might as well camp out in my bathroom with how often I have to sit on the toilet! Its really sad but I guess moderation is very important with this gassy fruit. It is so difficult to only eat a few though.
October 22, 2008 at 2:58 pm
oh geez! i did the same thing as most of you.
I was at the store yesterday and I saw Turkish Dried Apricots. I thought great and health snack for work! So I brought a whole bunch to work today and had been snacking on through the morning – well just as lunch came around I started getting these horrible stomach cramps. Then I noticed gas needed to get out with out my being able to retain it. I have made many trips to the bathroom just to let out this gas! I just hope the horrible diarrea you all are talking about will hold off until I can make it home tonight… 2 more hours to go. Boy I learned my lesson, so much for eating healthy snacks.
November 3, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Hey Casey i got those those same type today. I started munching away, i think i ate more than a dozen. I farted all day. When i got to work i started to have diarrea. I last time i went to the bathroom before i should leave work, that old bathroom started to give problems and overflowed. It wouldn’t stop running…….Bottom line, no more apricots for me!!!!
October 24, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Holy crap, people… this is one of the funniest things I have EVER read… I’m crying reading these comments right now. Bravo.
November 3, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Oh yeah, had some this afternoon … looks like its gonna be a long night
November 14, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Apricots have good fibre, which we need so we don’t do sloppy shits etc. Thing is, if we don’t eat much fibre (and no, soft drinks, cakes, McDonald’s is not fibre!) then when we do eat something really fibrous — like apricots — our body goes nuts. That’s why you gotta gradually include it in your diet. A few dried apricots… then a few more… then some more. That way, you’ll make it to the can in time!
November 28, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Yup, been in this boat. Bought some dried apricots (150 grams of those little beauties) to go with lunch the other day. I love ‘em. Sadly, they really, really do make you fart like crazy. After an hour of uncontrollable flatulence I was forced to retire to the bathroom.
I can hardly describe what happened. It was massive.
Wasn’t the end though, they realllllllly sort out your digestive situation. I sat at my desk for another four hours letting out long, sneaky ones. No smell fortunately – I don’t think anyone at work twigged…
BY 5.30pm there was too much pressure and I was forced one again to retire to the bathroom, whereupon the lord himself must have cringed. Litres and litres of gas, I reckon they heard it next door. I actually had to wait until there was no-one left in the bathroom before exiting the cubicle… too embarrassing.
Good fruit. Nasty aftermath.
December 10, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Oh got, I’m in the same farty boat as all of you. All I have eaten today is about 20 dried cots and they have rendered me into a useless, farting pile of what used to be a brave man. Thank god my girlfriend is at work but I’m scared the smell has permiated the apartment and that I’m unaware of it because of the hours I have been soaking in it. I’m sure I’ll have to wash all my sweaters now. For some strange reason there have been a few times when I could eat 20 or so and be perfectly fine. Maybe they have different genetic apricot strains or something. Going to the bathroom wasn’t much fun either, as the human body doesn’t really “digest” apricots… just passes them through like some hellish intestinal stink rake.
December 12, 2008 at 11:10 pm
so i had some dried apricots ate them on the way to work today about 20 min then ate more at work came home had dinner 6:00 the farting started and its now 8:00 hasnt stopped had i took the time to look this up ii would have never eaten them, i guess its gonna be a long night. oh and i shared my bag with on of the kids in my program he ate like half the bag poor kid i wonder what his night is gonna be like
January 2, 2009 at 4:19 pm
I don’t know if this would be so laugh-out-loud hilarious if I hadn’t just been through it myself, but I am crying from laughing. My gaseous saga began when I bought a bag of dried apricots and had lunch at my favorite local Mexican restaurant the same day. I ordered a la carte and had a side of refried beans, so I blamed them. The first night, I was up for hours, with the worst gas of my life, making noises into the toilet like shooting an air horn into a megaphone! (There are new neighbors in the apartment next door who sleep right on the other side of my bathroom wall, too. Got to know them a little too well that night.) Had a second episode last night after having a tiny portion of leftover beans for lunch, so threw them out. I was on my 2nd apricot today when I remembered that I’d downed dozens yesterday and decided to Google “dried apricots gas.” Hope I can get away with 2…
January 4, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I don’t know if my stomach hurts more from laughing or this gas chamber builing up.My fiance and I are a deadly duo right now and decided to google dried apricots. All I can say is OMG! We both started sneaking out of the room, and then our trips became more frequent. We think we may win the guiness book of toilot paper usage is the shortest period of time. As for Unsolved Mystery of those houses that explode, some guess its a gas line, some think its struck by lighting. We ALL know now its for the unfortunate few who ate the whole bag in one night! -M&M
January 7, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Oh dear god – these comments are too funny. I’ve been blaming my apricot farts on the dog for 3 days now. My husband keeps yelling at the poor pooch and telling him he smells like inside out-asshole. I’m so over this healthy snack!
January 8, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Great to see that us dried apricot lovers aren’t alone, and also great to hear about the rest of your humorous anecdotes, however unpleasant the situation that brought them about may have been. I too have been stuck down with a case of gas/solids. It all started at about 3 this afternoon when I ate a whole 200 gram bag of the little devil fruits, since then I haven’t stopped farting and I have to be careful because they are the type of farts that if you exert too much pressure upon release, you are likely to follow through and soil your pants (that briefly happened). Luckily I have the day off work today and the missus is away, so I am not causing very much inconvenience to anyone other than myself. I would like to end this entry by saying how wonderful it is to be able to laugh at something so embarassing through the internet, surely I would curse all you people if I were stuck in a train/office/bed etc with you, but it seems that we have been destined to tell the world about our exploits.
PS, I also googled apricots and farts.
January 9, 2009 at 1:17 am
hilarious!!! thank you very much for the reading material. I am right there with everyone! I bought a bag of dried mixed fruit from Sam’s club and experienced the same symptoms. I stopped and then bought a different bag of dried mixed fruit and experienced it all over again. Since my bag of dried fruit was mixed I assumed that it was all the fruit. Is it just apricots or has anyone experienced other fruit culprits?
January 10, 2009 at 1:30 am
This could have been the best reading material I have read in ages. I made a new years resolution to eat healthy, Vitamin A, antioxidants, fiber, and a fruit! See you later Mr Carrot and see you later bran cereal! The miracle I had been looking for has been found! I bought a nice big bag of these at the wholesale club, and started eating them throughout the day. Instead of grabbing a soda, a couple more apricots, instead of a late night snack, a couple more apricots I also started working out (you ever try to bench press free weights while gassy), drinking protein shakes as well as other foods I have never tried before. I figured working out was making me gassy, then I blamed the protein shakes, I figured, what about the cot? It wasnt until I googled “dried apricots gas” that I stumbled upon this website. I have been wearing two sets of underwear with a couple dryer sheets in between to cover the smell for the past few days. To Finch in American Pie, I feel for you brother
On a side note, I am down 7lbs and feel incredibly lighter. Now all I need to do is find a friend who can take the other 3-4lbs of dried apricots that are sitting in the kitchen! Maybe I’ll give them to the mother in law
January 16, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Today I googled “why do dried apricots make me fart?” So I followed the first link and found this place of merry fart/poop posts. OMG, I laughed out loud so many times. I am even saving this link so my hubby can read what people are saying about the ‘cot. Today I am happy the grease trap at work was stinky otherwise my day would have been quite embarassing and inconvenient. I love, love, dried apricots. I will try to eat fewer and see if I can get away with that.
You people are too damn funny!!! Happy farting;p
January 17, 2009 at 7:17 am
oh my god this is hilarious!!!!
I’ve just googled “dried apricots gas” after i got a bit suspicious about my farting marathon….and found the link to this page…probably the best thing on the net!!!!
I’ve recently started a special diet, and needed something healthy to much on between meals…so i thought dried apricots would do the trick! i’ve gone through half a 500g packet so far, in 3 days.
day 1: got clogged up, leaving me feeling as bloated and helpless as a beached whale.
day 2: violently assaulted the toilet. i even can’t count the number of times i ran for the can yesterday and had what looked like epileptic seizures on the toilet as i machine-gunned toxic apricot residue. i pity the neighbors…the walls are paper thin.
day 3: i honestly think that I’m capable of farting out the tune to my national anthem – including the long notes.
January 19, 2009 at 4:23 pm
This is great. I was wondering what had gone wrong with me last night. I had just finished gym practice and since I had work in a few hours I had decided not to drive home before work (work and gym are far from my apartment) so I sat in a parking lot reading a book and munching on a bag of apricots. I noticed about an hour in (about half a bag -1/2 pound of aprcots- later) that I was having uber-frequent gas attacks, some that were really rank. I was partially concerned that these would end up as embarassing bowel movements before work, making a speedy trip home necessary. I was fine for the most part blaiming the gas on the unwinding I was gettting after working out.By the time I had gotten to wark the gas had turned from horrible SBDs to gut wrentching pains. (I blaimed that on holding them in; I am a server at a restaurant, I can’t go off releasing those beauties to the public.) twice I had to retire to the rest room to sort out my intestinal contents. I was more than once tempted to ask if I culd be sent home, but I toughed it out. So all told I had been suffering 9 hours of horrible bowel experiences. Now, today, the rest of the bag is grinning at me, so I googled ‘Apricots cause gas’ and look what I found!
January 25, 2009 at 10:36 pm
…and to top it all off, I gave my dog one!
January 26, 2009 at 11:38 pm
Thank goodness we finally figured out the cause of my beautiful wife’s horrendous gas. The smell coming out of her cute ass doesn’t seem possible, really. I mean we’re talking 400lb, sweaty, beer guzzlin’, tv dinner eatin’ truck driver farts. I bought a bag of apricots at costco about a month ago and she has been laying the gnarliest most disgustingly thick and clinging to the inside of you nose farts. The farts have actually woken me up twice because they smell so bad. Everybody farts but these are atomic death farts–the smell woke me up–I was gagging and felt like I was sleeping in a putrid sewer. For weeks we have been trying to diagnose–new vitamins, the juicer, chex bars what is it? We even currently have a call into the dr.. She coincidentally just finished the bag tonight so I am keeping my fingers crosssed. No, really, I asked her if some animal crawled up her ass and died, these farts were the worst I have ever, ever smelled…and they just kept coming night after night. I am going to be so grateful if this fart nightmare is finally over.
January 29, 2009 at 2:36 pm
This is absolutely hilarious! I’m in the same boat as all of you… I was so excited when I came home with a box of dried apricots because they’re so yummy. I don’t remember anything like this happening when I was a kid, but I ate a bunch in school two days ago and suffered miserably. I thought maybe I just had an upset stomach from something else, which seemed relatively cured after a miserable bout of diarrhea. So last night, as I was finally feeling completely okay internally once more, I came home from working out and snacked liberally on the delicious little fruits… only to be quickly attacked by violent intestinal pain and horrific bouts of putrid, smelly gas. I tried to go to bed, but could only sleep for half an hour at a time until the gas had built up to a volume where it was so painful it would wake me up… just so that I could fart! And there was no solid relief to follow this time. My poor fiance. My stomach still hurt this morning when I woke up, but since I have emptied myself a little, I feel much, much better. I thought I had food poisoning, but the timing of my pain coincided so neatly with my recently eaten apricots, that it made me wonder…… and as I typed “dried apricots” into google, it suggested the following word: “gas”. Apparently I am not alone. And thus I found this hilarity! Apparently these fruit should come with a warning label.
And just to make it worse: http://www.springerlink.com/content/8u4566t3×7t75t66/
February 4, 2009 at 12:39 am
I am suffering right now from a bad case of the Dried Apricot Sharts. Thanks for sharing your hilarious apricot woes, folks, and bringing a little joy into my very smelly, messy evening.
February 5, 2009 at 1:04 am
OMG I just found out what I have been doing wrong! I have been in misery for 2 days cause I ate healthy dried apricots yesterday and suffered last night (I blamed the tbsp of peanut butter I had on my toast) and then just to make sure I was eating healthy again today I brought them with me to have at work. I must have eaten 20 or 30. OMG I have suffered all night. I’m never eating healthy again!
February 5, 2009 at 12:43 pm
So every year I go on a bass fishing trip with a bunch of old buddies. We have this thing where we try and eat the nastiest stuff to create the worst smelling farts and try and stink eachother out of the trailor at night. Now I know what to arm myself at the beginning of this fishing trip. Dried Apricots, baby!!!
February 5, 2009 at 10:19 pm
This is the funniest thing I have ever read in my life! I am in a similar situation as many of you. I made various new year’s resolutions which included saving and getting in shape. I’m not trying to be Mr. Universe or anything,but I’m tired of having tits, you know. Anyway,I’ve been eating oatmeal at work for breakfast. I love having it with raisins. I figured, “hey I can save AND eat healthy!” Monday morning I came into work early to go to the gym and to buy some dried apricots to cut up and put into my oatmeal (with the raisins). I Figured I can save and eat HEALTHY. Tsk tsk…
This entire week I have been on the verge of shitting on myself at my desk at work. I’ve been going to the gym at lunch and I eat a protein bar after my workout. I thought that they have been giving me gas. Damn, I glad I found this site, because I just bought a huge box of protein bars and I was prepared to go through the shart attacks for the next few weeks because I payed so much for the bars.
I want to tell my co workers about this site, but I’ve been letting them rip in the office when they leave. I open the window and turn on a fan, but I can’t be sure that it actually does anything to really get rid of that hotness my ass spits.
February 8, 2009 at 4:21 pm
LOL, This whole line of remarks has me laughing till I am crying!! I love apricots, but can only eat a few and the gas begins!! This afternoon, I ate four and now the entire house is a smell of something that I can not describe!! Hang in there apricot eaters!!
February 11, 2009 at 12:52 am
ok it all started in an airport. waited to board i thought dried apricots would be a good snack for my trip. up in the air the “explosions” began. for the rest of my journey i was running for the bathrooms. i thought i was some thing i ate or traveling was upsetting my stomach. on my next trip two months later (not thinking of my last experience) i got another bag of the apricots, soon after i began looking for the closest restroom. i was convinced i just did not travel well. it has been four months since my traveling trauma. to day i grabbed a bag of apricots on the run, i hadn’t eaten anything all day so the bag did not last me long. BIG MISTAKE in about 30 min it felt like a battle field was ragging in my abdomen. gas was exploding, and i really needed to get home. as soon as i arrived home i sprinted to the toilet. finally i put two and two together, traveling had nothing to do with my toilet problems. it was the delicious heathy snake choices. i quickly began searching the internet from an answer to my discomfort when i found this web site. misery loves company, and hell ya, thank you to all that help me know that i was not alone. word to the wise, when eating dried apricots, MODERATION is key!
February 11, 2009 at 3:05 am
Haha!i never knew cots would have this effect!! i ate a whole 250g bag in one go. Then this morning i was letting out long drawn out farts that sounded like something was dying,my dog actually started howling along with them! This then changed into a serious of quick fire machine gun bursts that scared the cat. Just when i thought i was over the worst of it i had to dash to the loo where i quite simply opened up the gates of hell! it was so much effort beads of sweat started to form on my forehead! im not touching them again!!
February 24, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Yes, I’m also guilty of google-ing “apricot farts”. I had to know if it was just me or a possible allergy. RANK SULPHER FARTS. The cat looks at me like I am the most foul person in existence. Really they’re great for single people on a diet (as is my case) because they really cut hunger but the side effects are POTENT. But yeah, they build up with the quickness. It has made for intersting reading during my butt-burning periles. Good stuff. And for the next person who comes along like I did…rest assured, no your insides are not rotting out.
February 27, 2009 at 12:32 am
Another victim. I bought some dried apricots at Trader Joe’s today and took them with me to my THERAPY APPOINTMENT this evening! I shared them with my therapist and hope to God that she isn’t suffering terribly now. My stomach began to make weird noises during my session but then the gas began while I was sitting in my car on the side of the freeway waiting for AAA to come change my flat tire. Yes, this was pretty much a worse case scenario sort of day. So, I googled dried apricots gas and sure enough, here is my answer. I am going to good every new thing I am considering eating + gas before eating it from now on. Had I seen this thread first…I could have saved myself (and my therapist) a lot of unhappiness. It IS sort of funny, though!
March 3, 2009 at 4:02 am
Seems everyone comes here to get their farts diagnosed!
I unconsciously polished off a bag of dried apricots today, not feeling sick yet – but can NOT stop farting…totally involuntary. One ripped out when I bent down to pick up the phone, and also when my boyfriend and I were skyping his mum!!!!
March 3, 2009 at 11:52 pm
All I can add is try having the misfortune of your first apricot experience when you are 5 months pregnant! I thought the baby was going to get expelled along with the bloody apricots! So much for upping my iron levels naturally… glad I’ve worked out the trigger though and no longer am concerned that I contracted salmonella via my lunchtime peanut butter fix! Thank god for googled apricot gas
March 6, 2009 at 10:43 am
I ate a half a bag not too long ago, and Oh my…it was awful in the house that evening. I blamed it on my infant daughter. My husband bought it too.
March 15, 2009 at 4:01 pm
great to feel amongst other sufferers. Just experinced the apricot gas and i was stuck in a small room with my husband. he is giving me the “that can’t have been you look and even cat left the room.
March 15, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I too am 5 months pregnant and just spent the weekend SICK IN BED from, apparently, the dried apricots. And I didn’t know it, either, and so I ATE MORE TODAY when I was finally feeling better! Ack! I had more of the explosive-type of symptoms but also including aches and chills. I’m telling you these things are lethal! Thanks for the funny little post and series of hilarious comments. Sure makes me feel better!
March 17, 2009 at 10:38 pm
I can totally sympathize with everyone: i had a ‘cot nightmare today. >__< it started last night when my mom made her lovely apricot chicken. There were some cots left in the bag, so i thought, that would make a lovely snack before school tomorrow. The next morning I ate 5 before going to school. I normally have the most silent and stinkless farts at school,but this morning i could tell something was REALLY WRONG. Being an anatomy student,i thought that my large intestine was flippin’ out at me for not eating lots of fiber in the past. I took advantage of the stethoscopes we used in lab today to take a listen down there. It sounded like an orchestra of belching cows! After a horridly gassy day,i grabbed some more after school. I finished the whole bag, and soon enough i was so bloated that i looked a couple months pregnant! My GI tract has become dante’s inferno! I googled dried apricots gas to find a reason why this is all happening and landed here! lol My room smells disgusting and i have to sleep in it tonight! yuck. No wonder dad calls those dang things farticots.
March 19, 2009 at 4:29 am
i noticed the gleaming container on the bench , i reached out in desperation for the taste of dried apricots.i ate one , then another , and before you know it i was grabbing them and swallowing uncontrollably , i must of had at least thirty. I was fully satisfied and decided it was enough.i turned on the tap and cleansed the stickyness from my hands. two hours later it began.I was surrounded in clouds of death which were escaping out of my lower hole and entering my nose holes. My face condensed as the smell completely stunned me. i am left farting in bed , trying to arrange the blankets so the death cloud doesnt attack my nostrills , but my attempts are pathetic, and i fall asleep within the blankets of putrid discust.
March 23, 2009 at 9:23 pm
Thank god for Google!! I was thinking, “what in the hell have I eaten today exactly?” And I realized the only unusual thing was dried apricots…15 – 20 of them, which is more than enough for all described above. *I* googled “dried fruit diarreah” and found this site. I ate them like 6 hours ago, the worst is over (amazing how quickly they act), but my stomach is still rumbling, and the farts are still coming. And I still have half a bag sitting near me saying “eat me, I taste good, eat just one more…” Get away from me devil bag of fruit!!! (until tomorrow at least)
March 26, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Like many of you I recently ate about 30 dried apricots and am ruing the decision. I decided I’d try to Google “dried apricots” and “fart”, and here I am. They are very delicious, but I hope I remember never to make this mistake again. I will now only eat the tasty little treats when I’m dying of constipation. Is there any way to balance them out in the diet? Can I eat a bunch of “_______” and reduce my gas?
March 29, 2009 at 3:47 pm
LOL
Also a Dried Apricot Farts googler.
Man, i am never going to get these things again!
Im afraid to go into work tomorrow
April 1, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Man… it is truly amazing what a little google search can do for someone – and all the wisdom that comes from it. As I sit here with the biggest gut ache and the hugest farts in town, I catch myself staring at my container of Turkish Apricots. Little did I know that it was healthy little things that have been the cause of my 3-day fart fest and diarrhea doom. healthy smealthy!
April 20, 2009 at 12:12 am
THEY ARE SO ADDICTIVE. I even knew the effects that dried apricots before I ate them…I thought to myself “hmm, I’ll just have 3 or 4″ and then 10 minutes later, 3 or 4 more, and then 2 hours later I had eaten 3/4 of the package I got yesterday. All day I had these horrible, loud, smelly farts (thank god no one was home!) and kept having to run to the bathroom. It’s midnight and I still have explosive diarrhea and massive farting spells. It’s gonna be a long night.
April 20, 2009 at 5:15 pm
So I’ve known for a while that dried apricots cause gas, yet, I can’t seem to stop eating them. I’m lucky that (despite being a college student) I have a room to myself otherwise my poor roommates would have to live with this awful stench. I’m ashamed to say that I have to lock the doors and open the windows so that they won’t get a whiff of it….SO embarrassing…
April 29, 2009 at 1:42 am
Just finished my 400g container of turkish dried apricots. It has been an uproarious couple of days, but I didn’t realize what the culprit was until just now. The blogmaster here has truly found him/herself a niche market. Long live the comments!
May 3, 2009 at 10:09 am
Yesterday my boyfriend sat and watched me polish off nearly 8 oz. of dried apricots after my workout. He gently said “You know, it’s a well-known fact that eating lots of dried fruit, such as apricots, can, well, let’s just say if you have any intestinal back-up, you won’t in a few hours.” He then wisely ducked out of the apartment for an hour or so. I wish he had instead jumped up from his chair, grabbed the container from my hand and said, “For the love of God, woman! Stop eating those little stink-bombs!” I had to spend the rest of my evening sneaking into the bathroom, opening windows, burning incense, blaming the cat box, EVERYTHING to try to save face. He hasn’t broken up with me yet, so maybe he didn’t notice the toxic fumes I produced. Anyway, as delicious as those innocent little fruits might be, I am officially banning them from my diet.
May 4, 2009 at 4:58 pm
When this happened to me I suspected the sulfur dioxide preservative that appears to be on every package of dried fruit I see in the supermarket. Since my “episode” I’ve been wary of all dried fruit. Have you guys noticed this happening with fruit other that apricots?
May 12, 2009 at 6:17 am
Raisins do it to me. Also, if I eat bananas with peanut butter. Prunes are absolutely horrid.
My girlfriend had a bag of ‘cots in her desk and was munching on them one day. I was at work in another city and didn’t get home till the next day. She started texting me about her gas issues. I’m SOO glad I wasn’t home. She said the smell was horrible and the crapping was unreal. Like a Wagner power sprayer.
She did a google search and found this page. I bookmarked it and read it every-so-often. I still laugh.
I learned a long time ago that those little bastards a capable of squeegee-ing out my guts. I love them but don’t eat more that 3 or 4 at a time. I wish I could have warned my girl but then I wouldn’t be here enjoying this page.
The guys at work are always trying to stink each other out. I should tell one of them about Apricots and see what happens.
May 26, 2009 at 8:18 pm
I’m 6 weeks pregnant and thought I got food poisoning from a cookout. Nope! It’s all the lovely dried apricots I ate.
I stink.
May 29, 2009 at 12:07 am
Ha, I googled “dried apricots gas” and found myself here as well. I’m laughing at everyone’s comments. Funny thing is I have always eaten dried apricots and never had this happen! I’ve eaten about a handful of Trader Joe’s Turkish Apricots, each day for the past three days, and every day the same gassy problem. Now I wonder if it’s me, or if it’s the apricots that have changed…
June 3, 2009 at 10:00 am
I, too, reek of the bnoxious rank from eating dried apricots. My husband has banned them from the house now. But if you can’t resist the yummy snack be sure to include Gas-X in your diet and you will be covered.
June 8, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Why are these fruits not banned? What sadistic villain is producing and selling them for profit? Why are there no warning labels? Seriously, this is just evil.
June 21, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Thankyou Google for giving me such a good laugh tonight. I too suffered from the apricot windy pops, I thought my husband might divorce me. I actually went up to bed early that night (last week) because I was stinking out the lounge after eating 1/2 a bag of the devil fruits. 10 minutes later he told me the smell was no longer contained in the bedroom but had drifted downstairs to the lounge! He actually groaned out loud when he came up to bed later and pushed the windows open further. Next time I will plan my apricot eating shenanigans to a day when I have the house to myself!
June 24, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Wow, I am glad that I had the thought to google “dried fruit gas” and that I stumbled upon so many others before me who have had such a terrible fate after eating apricots. I’m not sure how I will part from them but as soon as I finish this container, I’ll lay low from dried fruit for a while. Maybe next time I’ll just eat 2 or 3.
June 25, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Holy Cow !
It’s the dried apricots i am eating.
Couldn’t understand why it’s happening to me.
Is it Sulphur Dioxide prevative or in general of apricots? I think we have to find dried apricots without suplur dioxide in it.
As doctor recommended us the dried apricots we are using it.
Lets see what we can do here. Great post ! Thanks.
June 26, 2009 at 7:57 am
Ive just unleashed all kinds of fury into my poor unsuspecting work’s latrine. I sincerely feel for my colleagues as the smell is lingering in there like a booger caught in the recesses of your nose and which cannot be dislodged regardless of how hard you blow. I think we might need a young priest and an old priest in there to perform some sort of excorsism. Truth be told i actually feel a bit smug about it – ne’er have i been able to fart with such aplomb, but today i have fulfilled my dreams. Vive la Apricots!
July 9, 2009 at 12:37 pm
An innocent trip to Tescos here in London UK, and returning with a 500g bag of dried Apricots is how my breif ‘Anus horribilis’ began.
I munched through half a bag or more, eating until I couldnt eat anymore (they are certainly addictive) and went to bed.
About 1am, I woke up with the most incredible feeling in my stomach, which i have honestly never felt before – as if my entire insides had been filled with a hundred pork pies. I legged it to the toilet, and sat for a moment in silence listening to my mum gently snoring away peacefully in her room. Then it happened. Like a foghorn gone wrong, I did the loudest fart I have ever known – so loud I litterally scared myself and had to stop. My mum was startled and started coughing uncontrollably in her bedroom, and i heard a loud bang as the foxes lept for their life over the garden fence. I sat in stunned silence with water in my eyes for a moment unable to believe the sheer power of it. But this was just the start. I was just able to mutter the words ‘oh god no’, before I had the most rediculously powerful jets of diarrhea i have ever known, like a firehose at full pressure made worst by farts which actually sounded like the word ‘bowel’, ‘bowel’, bowel’ over and over again. Absolutely beside myself with terror, I tried to sing ‘Heal the world’ by Michael Jackson to myself while clinging onto the toilet for dear life waiting for the nightmare to end, but this didnt help.
It wasn’t until today typing in the magic keywords ‘dried apricots stomach’ that my fears were confirmed with this pleasant little website. Those innocent orange globes of goodness are produce from the devil himself. I’ve looked at the packaging twice for some sort of warning, but nothing. Even something basic like ‘warning, these may make you shit yourself’ would be a start.
August 10, 2009 at 4:47 am
Goodness me! I have the sorest belly right now and not even some eno has soothed it! Ate 225g packet today after thinking I too would grab something healthy. Moderation must definitely be the key to these little critters as I’ve eaten them numerous times bfore without this reaction. Stomach sounds like a thunderstorm is brewing!
August 12, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Perfect thing to put in gift baskets for annoying people (coworkers, bridezillas, etc.)
August 27, 2009 at 8:26 am
I also googled ‘apricot fart.’ I ate about 30 yesterday before I met up with my ex boyfriend, I hadn’t seen him since we broke up 3 months ago so it was kind of a big deal. I noticed in the afternoon that my farts where so nasty and so frequent that my walls where turning brown. My farts are usually nothing much, (dont tell anybody but I actually secretly like smelling them! They smell like violets).
Once I was out though- my goodness… I had the most shocking, twisting pain in my stomach trying to hold them in. Luckily he didn’t seem to notice, I tried to only do them when I was at the bar, just before I walked away… (sneaky!) I had to excuse myself throughout the evening to release the pressure in my bowels. I dropped piles and piles of apricot poo into the pub toilet
so horrible.
Are they good for us? Today I feel cleansed, maybe if I persevere, and keep eating them, my insides will become nice and clean and this wont happen?
September 5, 2009 at 1:53 am
My stomach is rumbling mad. I ate an entire packet’s worth of dried apricots. Whoops!
September 6, 2009 at 8:35 pm
WELL! I’ve eaten dried apricots all of my life and dearly love them. This is the first time I’ve had the terrible results you all describe so well. Today, my blood sugar started to drop [i'm diabetic and that can be a disaster]. I had no glucose pills and no candy but there were apricots in the office kitchen. i ate lots of them! now i’m sitting at work still because i can’t stay out of the bathroom long enough to trust getting on the train to go home!! I’ve really enjoyed reading all the extremely descriptive passages about apricot farts and diarrhea as i try to wait out the frequent trips to the bathroom and hope for a ride home.
September 11, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I too have recently suffered the after effects of dried apricots. I bought some last evening and ate half the bag then and half the bag this morning–to results that insulted my own senses!!! They are SOOO good, but SOOO bad at the same time. I stay home and watch my two year old son and don’t have to work, thank God, because I don’t know how I would have worked around other people today. I fear my son will forever think of me as stinky. Maybe put a drier sheet in my shorts?
Anyway, no one has given any remedies for this gassy disaster. A long time herbal remedy user, I tried a mint tea (any kind of mint will do) and its helped so much already in the past hour! Good luck!
September 16, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Oh my god… I started dieting so instead of a candy bar or something like that for a snack, Dried Apricots. I left Denver munching up the mountains on my way to Steamboat Springs. By the time i arrived i needed to find a rest room quick. After calling on 3 acounts as quickly as possible (with rest room visits between each) i headed for Glenwood Springs got a room and exploded again. I want to loose weight but not all in one day. No more dried apricots for this fat boy
September 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm
here i go again!!But i dont even try to fart, i would shart myself
September 17, 2009 at 8:55 am
I just finished an entire night of farting my brains out, It was my birthday sweet 22 and I ate like 2 little bags of apricots. Now I also drank about 2 bags of milk aswell… My roommate whose on the other side of the wall said he couldn’t sleep well because of all the loud farting and shitting noises… worst experience I’ve ever had…
September 22, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Cant stop laughing after reading this.
Ive eaten dried Apricots for years, love them, but only realised THEY were the cause of my chronic flatulence quite recently. Prunes are bad but apricots are the worst. The most dangerous brand are Sunsweet Naturally Dark Apricots which taste divine but then they literally blow you away. Once they even ruined a lovemaking session with my wife and got me evicted from the bedroom. They should have a warning on the box because they are a) very addictive b) disrupt your digestive system c) may ruin your sex life
October 6, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I purchased one pound of dried apricots from the airport with no knowledge that such a horrible result would come from eating about half the bag. I was trying to eat healthy today so I had a salad at lunch but I was still hungry afterwards, so I went for the bag of dried apricots. My stomach started to hurt around 3:50pm making me late for a 4pm meeting with the client. When I returned to the hotel, I put in a call for room service. Had to ask the room service guy to put the tray next to the door, though I normally ask for them to set it on the desk, but I was too embarassed by the smell to let the man come too far inside. After reading this site, I sent the link to my sister, brother in law and dad, but kept my boyfriend off the list. Though I love all the comments, I couldn’t let the boyfiwnd know I was among those on the toilet for an extended period of time.
October 6, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Go Danielle!
October 15, 2009 at 5:09 am
Dear God…I thought I had eaten something bad. Turns out the dried apricots are both a blessing and a curse. The gas is so bad my dog jumped off the bed, but I think I lost 5 lbs in a day from the explosive bowels! I do not recommend eating dried apricots on a plane, at work, in a car or any place in public. You will pay a price worse than the devil himself could impose on your unlucky soul. Trust me…only in private with a toilet very close by.
October 18, 2009 at 8:31 am
I cant breathe just now for laughing at your experiences! – I too bought a bag of dried apricots a couple of days ago, after deciding to give up my chocolate fixation for something healthier. I was unaware, however, of the potential side effects! – I couldnt think of anything else I had eaten so I googled “do apricots cause gas?”! – I must have gotten through a full can of air freshener last night and today, and im not leaving the house today just incase! – I have never experienced anything so violent and putrid in my life, I thought i was crapping death itself lol! – and the thing is I bought another 2 bags of mixed fruit – think theywill be making a swift exit into the bin!!
October 20, 2009 at 1:37 am
Thanks everyone for sharing… I’ve had some minimal discomfort before but I can’t recall how many I ate today.. I was trying to eat healthfully today and had stir-fried veggies and a BUNCH of apricots for lunch. At around 5:30 this evening my insides began to explode. I’m guessing my tenants are pretty horrified right about now. My toddler is smarter than me, she only ate one at lunch and wouldn’t eat any more. Things are starting to settle down now but I would rather have a few extra pounds than see the toilet that many times in a five-hour period. I’m so glad I googled “dried apricots gas” and found all of these stories, I’ve been laughing so hard in between farts… even though I’m uncomfortable and stinky at least I am happy. My husbands told me tonight that apricots are “off limits” from now on.
October 26, 2009 at 2:26 am
I feel like we should start a new translation for A.A., because for ALL of us it should stand for Apricots Anonymous. Hi, I’m Denny, and I abuse dried apricots ((Hi, Denny!))
I’m so guilty of just about all the things you bloggers have written about. Instead of my entry being mostly redundant, I would like to highlight an “event” that should shed some new light to the readers, please.
Generally speaking, I don’t practice moderation all that well, so when I had a sampler of just one of those golden orange jewels, I had to go to a store and buy a very large bagful of them. Commensurate with my passion to eat healthy foods was my passion to enjoy their taste during my first sitting. Buddy-Boy, I ate a lot of them.
Where my life got interesting, thereafter, was after I went to bed that night and wafted off into a blissful state of deep slumber. I am shooting you a straight arrow when I tell you I woke up 5 times during the night because of how violently loud and explosive sounding my sulfur-bombs were. This noise reminded me of a cross between a very large prison riot mixed with the sound of a mammoth crane accident all erupting at once.
When these sulfur-bombs alarmed me out of my sleep, of course I was still very groggy minded, but with caveman sharpness I said to myself, “OMG! Did I just wake up my own self due to a fart that was louder than a “Who” concert?!”… and then immediately fall back to sleep (oh, and I did kind of let out a clumsy giggle as I soon fell back to sleep, because I was a bit proud of myself).
One time, during that night, I woke up about T-minus 2 seconds before one of my big blowers, and in a groggy frame of mind, thought, “These are so violent that I’m now waking up just before launch”.” Then, I immediately launched a bowel-blower, and then I immediately went to sleep, again.
Has anybody else, out there, awakened themselves 5 times during their night’s sleep? It’s so embarrassing that I couldn’t even dare discuss it with a person face-to-face. You know what I mean?