A few days ago I got a panic-stricken email from a lady who had just been diagnosed with a salicylate intolerance. She had been looking at a clutch of websites that listed all the foods that contained salicylates. There was nothing left that she could eat! A salicylate …
Cow's milk allergy
Elucidating allergy/intolerance confusion….
Last week we had a meeting with the lovely Ceres PR who will be working with us on promoting the FreeFrom Food Awards this year – and one of the things they asked us to outline for them in our briefing was areas of confusion in 'freefrom' and allergy/intolerance. Not a …
Dairy disappointment
From all the headlines over the last few weeks, dairy allergics could not be blamed for thinking that all their problems had been solved – if Australian A2 milk did not do it for them, then Daisy, the hypo-allergenic New Zealand cow certainly would... But, alas, beyond the hype, …
Are Macdonalds french fries safe? Here we go with labeling again…
I am not sure who pointed me to this post but it illustrates, yet again, the terrible confusing tangle that is allergy labeling.... The question is, effectively, whether hydrolysing, or breaking down a protein into its amino acid components, destroys its allergenicity or reduces …
Should allergens be banned from a household with an allergic member?
I just came across an article from an recent Sunday Telegraph headlined 'Food fight over allergy ban' which investigated, once again, the extremely knotty problem of whether or not you should allow allergens into a household with an allergic member. There are in fact, two …