Wonderful though our judges may be for the FreeFrom Food Awards – and indeed they are! – their work would not be possible without an immense amount of behind the scenes preparation, both in the months leading up to the judging and on the judging days themselves. First …
Allergies
FreeFrom Food Awards judging – day 5
After two whole days off it was quite hard to get back into judging swing this morning - but if anything was going to get us going it was 'Breakfast' – although I am not sure that anyone had quite counted on facing up to 25 cereals!! Flakes, loads of them as you can see, …
Alpro – ongoing…
The Alpro saga may have been pushed off the front pages by the Addenbrookes peanut allergy research but it has most definitely not gone away. (For anyone who does not know what I am talking about see my blog from on January 21st or the AlproSOS Facebook page.) Alpro did …
FreeFrom Food Awards Children’s category…
Our Children's category judging is organised each year for us by the wonderful Christine Bailey who gathers together a group of food allergic / intolerant or coeliac children and teens from among her patients. They all come to her house and we pile down with the products and all …
Successful peanut allergy trials
The media has been buzzing for the last two days with reports of the Addenbrooke's trial which showed that, by feeding peanut-allergic children tiny but increasing doses of peanut protein, you can desensitise them to the point that they no longer react to peanuts. This is, of …