How has peanut allergy crept up on 21st century children? In 1997 there were 416,000 peanut allergic children in the USA; in 2009 there were 4.5 million. This is a thousand-fold increase in a mere 12 years.... And the numbers are still rising. Rising almost as fast is the …
Allergy/intolerance
Italian Food and Freefrom Diets
I have just been staying for a couple of days with my good friend Anna del Conte whose wonderful books on Italian food many of you will already know, as many of her recipes have appeared on the foodsmatter.com recipe pages (Just type Anna del Conte into the search box when you …
Iced Coffee – Dairy-Free, of course!
The arrival of real summer weather over the last few weeks has made the Foods Matter office realise how lucky it is! It lives in a large Victorian house in north London, with a large, very green and very protected garden which, although not very productive, is extremely organic …
Freefrom Food vs. ‘Healthy’ Foods
Ever since we started to write about 'freefrom' foods we have faced somewhat of a dilemma - and have consequently taken a lot of flak from manufacturers of foods that have set out to deliver health and, by the way, have also been 'freefrom'. Hopefully, as the nutritional profile …