Battling my addiction to fennel seeds

I love fennel seeds too :)

you r not the only one having addiction of fennel seeds .i am a big addict of it and i eat around 100 grams of it in just one day for the past three years.til now i hav no health problem but now iam very much worried of this habit of mine.i mean i cant resist it.i eat it almost after every hour nd after few minutes if i am in tention. i want to get rid of this habit bt dnt know HOW?

The "addiction" is probably just the symptom of the larger underlying issue, which is anxiety. It's a nervous response. The fennel chewing is a way of "self-medicating" your anxiety. This is true of most addictions, actually. They are a manifestation of anxiety (even if people are actually unaware of their own anxiety!)

That may give you a better place to start...at the root. So, you can fix the problem, and not just the symptom.

Good luck.

Trolololo

Are you a dude?

It started of with cardamoms,now its fennel ( i've finished a whole packet and i still like cardamoms) and sometimes i like to get dried lavender and eat it with sugar but i don't reccomend it in case of any weird side effects. I also like things like herbal tablets because they got that same herby taste, oh and i ike fresh fennel grown in the garden and also thyme and rosemary are really nice.

OMG, I am just so shocked to see u all with the same thoughts and feelings and i always thought i was the only one, I feel just like u guys and dont seem to be getting any info on bad effects... but as someone said anything in excess is harmful... i follow the same motto , but am unable to follow it up.... as someone said am planning not to buy anymore...had ordered for some frm the shop, but am planning to return it off.... Lets see.

I have been addicted to fennel seeds too!! It started with those Indian restaurants. I was addicted to them for over 3 years!!!!! Almost "drank" them (ha,ha). I knew I had to stop b/c it also dehydrated me so much in order for my body to digest and process them. Anyway, it's been good. I just don't buy them, but if I have the opportunity to eat them (i.e. Indian restaurant, healthy food store, etc..) I take a huge handful. I am now eating anise seeds, which I love, too, but I'm not going to make this a new habit if I can help it.

I'm glad I'm not the only one out there. People think I'm crazy and can't believe my craving. Oh, and I've tried caradmom seeds (in the pods), too. I do like them also, but it's an acquired taste for sure.

+1

Is that the flavor in licorish? Why not eat licorish?

A gateway spice?

i ve been eating it since I was 13. nOW I M 23!

Hi,

So surprised to see this post. Let me share my experience-
I am 31 female, I used to eat lot of fennel seeds when in my pre-teens. I dont know how but I gave up. Recently, 2 years back, the addiction came back. I would easily eat 100+ gms each day. I went to doc for my check up ( after many many years) and they found that I am severely anemic. They put me on high dose iron pills. After a month , one fine day - I just gave up fennel seeds, my body did not crave for it anymore. I checked my blood work again and my iron is back to normal. I believe, this addiction is some how related to low iron level in your body. I am pregnant ( IVF - I was not able to conceive on my own ) now and I have this craving back. Fennel is not recommended during pregnancy so I am trying to include more iron in my diet and hopefully it will be ok again.

Hope this helps.

I have a really bad addiction to fennel seeds, I am constantly chewing them unless I'm too lazy to go and get them from my kitchen. Sometimes when I crave them badly I look at picks and read info about them. I feel so crazy. But one thing that works for me is reading the harmful side affects that they can do to your body and that helps me crave them a lot less knowing that they can harm my health

I have a really bad addiction to fennel seeds, I am constantly chewing them unless I'm too lazy to go and get them from my kitchen. Sometimes when I crave them badly I look at picks and read info about them. I feel so crazy. But one thing that works for me is reading the harmful side affects that they can do to your body and that helps me crave them a lot less knowing that they can harm my health.

I have a really bad addiction to fennel seeds, I am constantly chewing them unless I'm too lazy to go and get them from my kitchen. Sometimes when I crave them badly I look at picks and read info about them. I feel so crazy. But one thing that works for me is reading the harmful side affects that they can do to your body and that helps me crave them a lot less knowing that they can harm my health.

Yes and no.

You have x number of estrogen receptors. Thats it. Plant estrogens are weaker than human estrogens.

Maybe your body is filling the estrogen receptors with the weaker plant estrogens.

Get some progesterone(cream) and get in shape. Not saying you are fat, but the number of estrogen receptors is regulated by the body fat %'s. If you are slim, turn it to muscle. If you are heavy, loose some and turn the rest to muscle.

Yeah, it's weird I'm sort of addicted to it too, whenever I get home I have like 2 bites, we buy like 1 fennel seed packet every month, and the packages are just a bit less than computer sized paper. I have about 10 bites a day, and I'm starting to get ruined I heard this happened to someone on drugs but I'm not on drugs, so its weird..., you see how this guy eats gum thats how I eat fennel seeds....

Licorice sticks have licorice root in them. Not fennel. It is coicidental that they taste similar. Many plants have an aniseed flavor.

My gram, a woman who was as frugal as they come, would save birthday wrap and small pieces of paper to reuse cause of her life experience, used to say "everything in moderation" because anything can become bad if not in moderation.

does fennel seed have something in it that is in licorice?

Thereis something in licorice that the body needs.

Get some licorice root and chew on it.

is this thread serious?

What the Heck?

i too have a huge fennel addiction
started when i was 13 now i am 24
its extremely difficult to get rid of iot though
and my moms furious i m having it
all my relatives tell me of its many 'sideeffects'
but wen i checked online there isnt anything substantial
but ya wen i eat too much of it my stomach and difestion goes all berseck, strange one would thin as fennel is actually good for digestion
also my tongue gets all torn after a point making eating anything spicy a real horror
some people also say it increases the heat inside your body

cold turkey

ugh. had them once and they made me vomit and gave me one helluva headache

Chew on licorice root for a change

Fennel can produce hallucinations and muscular convulsions in large doses.

Found the above online


Normally I dont have it but now im craving it thanks to everyone here!!

Try tarmarind paste, im addicted after eating at friends place. So tangy and mouthwatering

Check this for nutritional value:
[link to www.nutrition-and-you.com]

So have I... I am addicted to fennel seeds. I eat them in large quantities when i am hungry. I also have inter-menstrual bleeding. Can any one correlate it for me?