Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
That there are eight major allergens in the United States and fourteen major allergens in the United Kingdom and EU can cause problems to those with food hypersensitivities on both sides of the Atlantic — either when visiting one another’s…
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Two years ago I wrote about why all oats — be they gluten free oats or ordinary oats — are considered allergens in law and must be highlighted on ingredients labels. If you need a refresher, click here. Back then,…
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Barley or wheat listed in the ingredients of your “gluten free” food or drink? Alarmed? Confused? ANGRY? It’s probably OK. Barley and wheat (and rye and oats) are legally defined as gluten-containing cereals: as a group, one of the 14…
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… but they do contain dairy! If you follow me on Facebook you may recall last month I posted a picture of the labelling behind a packet of Cadbury’s Mini Rolls, with highlighted bold text reading “THESE CAKES DO NOT…
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May contain traces of milk. Made in a factory that also handles nuts. Manufactured in a facility that processes peanuts. People with food allergies are used to reading such precautionary allergen labelling (PAL) on their foods, but chocolate is particularly…
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Alarm has once again arisen concerning trace gluten in food for coeliacs. It stems from a study by the University of Western Australia, which analysed the gluten content of international foods, imported into Australia, for which a gluten-free claim was…
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A tweet by celiac blogger, cook and author Jules Dowler Shepard recently showed a shot of a restaurant menu, and a dish containing farro, which was labelled as gluten-free. Farro is the Italian word for spelt, but in the US…
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Lidl has recalled some batches of their Alesto Honey Peanuts because the word ‘peanuts’ does not appear on the label, as is required by Law. This echoes a recall of over three years ago by Booths, who withdrew some peanut…
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Landgarten is an Austrian brand of sweet / chocolate snack foods that I came across at the Natural and Organic Products Europe show last month. At first glance, it doesn’t look as if it might be particularly promising from a…
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When ebooks first came along, I never expected to ever have much to do with them, and this position wasn’t revised even when, first, my book on food intolerance was made available on Kindle, and then subsequently, so was the…
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