The Least Allergenic Foods
Some foods are
less allergenic than others. It means that a baby with
food allergy will only occasionally react to these foods and, with time, he may grow out of the problem if it does occur.
Usually, the least allergenic foods are the
first foods that are introduced into a child diet during weaning, way before other more allergenic foods that should be introduced later.
Here are several
foods least likely to cause an allergic reaction:
Cereals |
- Ground rice
- Rice
- Rice cereals (plain unmalted)
- Plain rice cakes
| - Plain rice crackers
- Rice flour
- Rice pasta (egg free)
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| Fruits
(peeled and home cooked) |
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| Milk and Dairy |
- Breast milk (the mother's diet may require modification)
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| Meat
(home cooked) |
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Vegetables
(peeled and ideally home cooked) | - Bok choy
- Carrots
- Potato
- Swede
| - Broccoli
- Green beans
- Pumpkin
- Sweet potato (kumara)
- Zucchini (courgette)
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| Other cooking aids |
- Bicarbonate of soda
- Yeast (bakers/dried)
- Maize cornflour
- Milk free margarine
- Sugar, invert sugar, Fructose
- Glucose*, Glucose syrup*, Dextrose*
| - Refined Oils such as olive, canola, safflower, sunflower
- Golden syrup
- Maize starch (corn)
- Rice syrup (pure)
- Wheat free baking powder
- Maltose*, Isomalt*
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| * These sugars, derived from wheat, rarely cause reactions in wheat allergic patients
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