My eating lifestyle is more on the paleo side of the diets out there.
could mucus be candida or do we all have it ?
That purplish black stuff wasn't food at all - it stank like old bile or toxins and burned as it passed. I've used Oxypowder before and the plaque that comes out still has a bit of a brownish colour to it but as you said, whatever it is, I'm glad it's out!