Julia Llewellyn Smith has caused a predictable storm with her article in yesterday's Telegraph, The Great Gluten-free Scam. In essence she is saying (backed by coeliac nutritionist, Ian Marber) that gluten is being demonised. It is not the cause of every ill from which you …
Gluten-free
Lovely Liverpool – and a really good show…
What a great city! And what lovely friendly people! Just do not ever try to get there up the M6 on a Friday night..... Our introduction to said friendliness was a taxi driver who found us (Cressida, Alex and I) peering despairingly through the rain, in the dark, at an Albert …
How allergic people shop
Our good friend Hazel Gowland has been working with a team from Unilever on how people with food allergies actually shop and came up with these interesting, although not entirely surprising, conclusions: Although self-reported, the pattern of food allergy reflects other …
Does FreeFrom food really need to cost so much?
A question that we get asked very regularly. And the answer is, well...... yes it does, but.... There are very good reasons why 'freefrom' food should cost more than normal: 1. Unusual ingredients. Freefrom foods use a number ingredients which may be relatively hard to …
The dreaded allergen thresholds – again…
A post on the Sugarpuffish blog last week illustrates yet again the frustrating unintended consequences of the FSA's attempts to keep allergic people safe. Sugarpuffish, who is very intolerant of dairy, noticed that one of her favourite snacks, 9Bars, had taken their 'dairy …