Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with helminthic therapy, the life changing re-infection with parasitic worms championed by John Scott, a subscriber to the original FoodsMatter magazine. John wrote to us about an article we were carrying on hypoallergenic baby …
Coeliac/celiac disease
Behind the scenes at the FF Christmas Awards presentation
The FreeFrom Christmas Awards presentation - not the image that you would expect of us all whooping it up in a room together but at least we were live this time. And you were pretty 'live' too! You may have been sitting at home on your sofas, but you were taking full advantage of …
Saturday Kitchen Coeliac furore
A few weeks ago the BBC brought the wrath of the Coeliac community down on its head by again disrespecting them in its evergreen Saturday Kitchen spot. Not only did they joke about guest musician Sharleen Spiteri's coeliac disease but later in the programme they appeared to serve …
Congratulations to Glebe Farm and Pure Oaty
The freefrom world has been waiting with bated breath the outcome of the battle between massive multi national Oatly with 60% of the £160 million oat milk market and Glebe Farm, a small independent UK oat farmer. Glebe Farm had, eighteen months ago, launched a gluten-free oatmilk …
An earth friendly alternative to polystyrene
One of the most frustrating aspects of each year's judging for the Free From Food Awards is the amount of polystyrene packaging that comes our way. Mainly to keep frozen and chilled food frozen/chilled, but also often just as fillers. If ever there was a material which was …