What nutrition deficiency is this?

[jennifer_bloom]

When I go days or weeks without consuming rice or pita bread, my inner mouth begins to feel sandy and damaged, as if the skin is decaying or peeling off, and I know it is a nutrition deficiency but since there are so many different nutritions in rice and pita bread, I have no idea what deficiency it is.

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9 mo

It was a folate or a vitamin B9 deficiency, rice is enriched with folate in North America, which is why the white rice protected me when I included it in my diet, they also enrich white rice with vitamin B1 in the English speaking west, which is another reason the rice helps Asians lose so much body fat.

[Stevepro68]

Rice is just complex carbs if it's brown some fiber but nothing that should be affecting your skin. Your body doesn't need carbs it can function 100% without them. Manufactured pita may have some added in vitamins. Depending on the grain trace vitamins and fiber. Avoiding carbs typically has no nutritional deficits for humans. It's just fuel for us. Burns to the mouth coarse rough food very spicy food or an allergic reaction would be the only thing to cause that typically. Hope that helps.

[Xawyx-2]

It could be vitamine deficiency (probably some of the B vitamins), or maybe some minerals, such as iron, zinc, or magnesium.

[Xawyx-2]

I just remembered another possibility - fiber deficiency.

[Xawyx-2]

Thank you for MHO