<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> The "Banana Diet" for celiacs from the 1950's consisted, as far as I remember, of bananas, cottage cheese, and "scraped beef". I believe the later was lean beef with all the fat scraped off of it. I remember eating bananas with mayo and nuts on top, and cottage cheese with bananas, mayo and pineapple etc. And after nothing much else for 5 or 6 years between the ages of 2 and 8, I still love both bananas and cottage cheese! And I guess that back then the mayo didn't have modified food starch as an ingredient. Robert J. (Roj) Miller Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Internet: [log in to unmask]