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Gluten-free

The trouble about gluten-free oats

04/01/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Oats are delicious – oats are nutritious – they contain high levels of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and are an excellent source of fibre – they do not contain the protein gliadin, the gluten fraction that coeliacs need to avoid – they add texture to gluten free baking and …

Category: Allergies, Food, Food/Health Policy, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-freeTag: 14 major allergens, Alex Gazzola, FreeFrom Foods, gluten-free oats, labelling of freefrom foods, labelling of gluten free oats, oats and coeliac disease, oats as an allergen, oats within the FIC regulations

Campaigners Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly talk about living with allergies

02/12/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

Cressida has just published this excellent interview she did with Lindiwe Lewis and Daniel Kelly on her Linked in page. I thought it needed a wider airing. Understanding allergy from the inside out is so important, so Lindi's and Dan's comments are massively helpful. How do …

Category: Alcohol, Allergies, Blogging/social media, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: allergen labelling, allergen labelling on alcoholic drinks, allergens in alcoholic drinks, Anaphyalxis Campaign, Cressida Langlands on Linked In, Dan Kelly blogger, Lindiwe Lewis, May Contain podcast, The Allergy Table Blog

Rethinking the Children’s category

15/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

Ever since we launched it in 2013 the Children's category in the FreeFrom Food Awards had been organised for us by nutritional therapist and special diet chef Christine Bailey who many of you will know well. Apart from having three children of her own on restricted diets …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Environmental Issues, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: #FreefromFoodAwards, availability of freefrom food for children, Christine Bailey, cost of children's freefrom food, FFFA children and teens category, FreefromFoodawards, labelling of children's food, sustainability of children's food

Missing freefrom products

11/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  9 Comments

A few weeks ago Alex asked his Twitter followers what freefrom products they would love to be able to buy – but still can't. Predictably, good gluten free croissants and other baked products came high on the list – still horribly difficult to make, especially if you are trying …

Category: Allergies, Dairy-free, Food, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Peanut allergyTag: #AlexGazzola, #AllergyInsight, #glutenfree tinned spaghetti, gluten free Black forest Gateau

No Top 14 – or 15 – or 16?….

05/10/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  7 Comments

Back in 2017, looking for an exciting new category for the 2017 FreeFrom Food Awards, we took a risk and launched a category for products that contained none of the top 14 food allergens as defined by EU. We expected to get about 5 entries but thought it was worth giving it a …

Category: Allergies, Coeliac/celiac disease, Dairy-free, FreeFrom Awards, FreeFrom Food, Gluten-free, Nutrition, Peanut allergyTag: #allergyreactors, #chickpeasasanallergen, #EuropeanFoodSafetyAuthority, #freefromconsumer, #FreefromFoodAwards, #freefromindustry, #glutenfreeoats, #MayContainWarnings, #NoTop14, #peasasanallergen, EFSA, PAL

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