Children’s meals in pubs or restaurants are usually served with peas or baked beans, and even lasagnes and curries are padded out with chickpeas or lentils. What’s more, pea protein or chickpea flour is often hidden in sausages and burgers, …
Everyone has their own comfort level when it comes to risk. If you have one child with allergies and one without, you have to strike a balance between allowing one a normal dietary lifestyle, and protecting the other one from …
It’s not as simple as just not eating the food you’re allergic to. When you’re first diagnosed with a food allergy, you’ll need to become familiar with allergy labelling. In the EU, this is governed by the Food Information for …
There’s no doubt that it’s easier to identify if a dish in a restaurant has the more common allergens in it – those that are legally required to be declared. But how do you manage allergies outside of those when …
A legume is, by dictionary definition “a plant that has its seeds in a pod, such as the bean or pea”. Peanuts, often referred to as nuts, are actually legumes and not tree nuts at all. Some people who are allergic …
The main issues will be sourcing other suitable forms of proteins and fresh vegetables, and of course checking the labels of any pre-packed foods that you buy. Some products such as cooked meats include pea protein or fibre, and ‘gram …
Some members of the legume family, peanuts, soya and lupin, are easier to check for because they are in the group of allergens that legally have to be declared on EU food packaging and therefore will be listed in red …
I’m getting annoyed. Cue Hulk: “You won’t like me when I’m mad…”. We need two Epipens (I’d ideally like approximately forty-five, to be honest). But we #alwayscarrytwo and here’s why… You see, I know what the stereotypical allergy parent is. …