Grapefruit Warning: It Can Interact with Common Medications

[Islander]

Matthew Thorpe, MD, PhD
May 7, 2020

Grapefruit is a delicious citrus fruit with many health benefits. However, it can interact with some common medications, altering their effects on your body.
If you’re curious about the grapefruit warning on many medicines, this article will help you understand why it’s there and what your options are.
Here’s a closer look at 31 common drugs that may have dangerous interactions with grapefruit, as well as some alternatives.

Keep reading: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition...nd-medications

[Julieanne]

My older neighbours insisted grapefruit aggravated their arthritis, but the only reference I could find was reactions to medications and grapefruit. Possibly they were on medication? Gone now, so I can't ask.

[Islander]

I dare say that practically anyone on the planet can conceivably have a reaction of some kind to something in the vegetable kingdom. Examples that quickly come to mind are some folks' reaction to cilantro, which is reported to be genetic, and some folks' reaction to goats milk, which has a repulsive off-flavor. Cilantro taste soapy to us. A restaurant once put cilantro pesto on my plate, and I wanted to throw it on the floor and step on it...but my friend was happy for me to scrape it onto his plate! As for that ronky buck flavor in goat milk, it disappeared when our goat was bred, but immediately after she kidded the flavor was back. Could be something hormonal? Neither my daughters nor I could tolerate it, yet my husband and both sons noticed nothing unusual about it. In a world where some people dislike tomatoes or ice cream, I'm prepared to accept any complaints around food!