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 …
Alex Gazzola
Long COVID and Histamine Intolerance
As you may be aware, we have had a considerable interest in histamine intolerance ever since we started to work, many years ago, with Dr Janice Joneja. She is a world expert on histamine intolerance and for some years ran a Q&A series on histamine intolerance for us on the …
The dairy wars
An excellent recent post on Alex Gazzola's AllergyInsight blog covers several subjects (including a recent Anaphylaxis Campaign webinar on novel proteins on which more anon) but homes in on the current battle between the vegan and dairy lobbies, both claiming the moral high grand …
The trouble about gluten-free oats
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 …
FreeFrom Gift Awards – a new Alex ‘special’! #FFGA
There is no keeping Alex down these days.... No sooner had he finished his very successful on line presentation of this years' FreeFrom Skincare Awards than he was off on another tack – FreeFrom Gifts Awards.... To be fair, this had not come entirely out of the blue. We have …