date:Jan 18, 2023
mented foods. The latter two contain live microorganisms, which turn tyrosine into tyramine.
Bananas contain tyramine, but its hard to pinpoint how much tyramine is too much. Schaich points out that across studies, what is considered a high level of tyramine differs by as much as 100 grams. Tyramine, Schaich says, has a similar structure to serotonin, so tyramine is able to bind to serotonin receptors in the brain and affect the same pathways, like blood vessels. Tyramine can thus cause vasocon