I am not sure who pointed me to this post but it illustrates, yet again, the terrible confusing tangle that is allergy labeling.... The question is, effectively, whether hydrolysing, or breaking down a protein into its amino acid components, destroys its allergenicity or reduces …
Blogging/social media
Some ‘freefrom’ food award statistics – and ‘freefrom’ skincare awards news!
I am not very good on statistics (something to do with me not being very good at maths?....) and spend far less time than I should on checking which of you read what on our sites. But yesterday Cressida emailed me some 'comparative data' for entries into last year's and this …
Depression, darkness, allergy…
Mid January is, notoriously, the time of year when people (well, those in the northern hemisphere anyhow) feel most depressed. I think that last Monday is the peak (or trough) depression day but the whole month is pretty grim. Not surprising really – the weather is cold and grey, …
Tweeters, bloggers – and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Twitter, it seems, has made it through the gates of the Old Bailey. According to a report on Today this morning, the live reports of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial that you were watching on your TV screens were delivered to the reporter via tweets from journalists inside the …
Gluten-free wines for the ultra sensitive
For mega-gluten-sensitive souls, Micki Rose has been doing research into how wines that are theoretically gluten-free may have been stored in ex-grain spirit barrels.... Read her post here. She also talks about the SoLo sulphite-free wines which also feature on our Christmas …