The More Allergenic Foods
Some foods are more allergenic than others. It means that a baby with a food allergy is likely to react to these foods.
Usually they are not introduced until after a variety of “lower allergenic” foods have been successfully introduced into the diet.
Here are several foods most likely to cause an allergic reaction, especially for a child with a food allergy:
| Cereals and grains |
- Breads, breakfast cereals, barley,
- Wheat and rye flours and products made from these flours eg
- Biscuits
- Cakes
- Pastries
- Pasta
- Triticale
|
| Egg and related foods |
- Eggs
- Scrambled eggs
- Quiche
|
Fruit |
- Bananas
- Grapefruit
- Kiwi fruit
- Lemons
- Limes
- Mandarins
- Oranges
- Strawberries & other berries including their flavourings e.g., toppings
|
Vegetables |
- Mushrooms
- Onions
- Tomatoes
|
Meat, fish and protein foods |
- Fish and Shellfish
- All types nutsand seeds and their products (including cashews, hazelnuts, brazil nuts, almonds, walnuts, sesame seeds, poppy seed, sunflower seeds, tahini, hummus, nut butter, marzipan peanuts and peanut products
|
| Milk and dairy |
- Cow's milk and all milk products
- Goat's milk and goat's milk products
- Lactoacidophilus products
- Sheep's milk and sheep's milk products
- Soy, soy milk and soy products
|
Other |
- Carob
- Chocolate
- Gelatin
- Herbs
- Honey
- Jam
- Jelly
- Junket
- Rennet
- Spices
- Stock cubes
- Yeast extracts
|
| Food Colours |
- Artificial: 102, 107, 110, 122-129, 133, 142, 151, 155
- Natural: 160b
- Flavour enhancers
- Hydrolysed vegetable protein (HVP)
- Monosodium glutamate 621
- Textured vegetable protein (TVP)
|
Preservatives |
- Anti-oxidants 310-321
- Benzoates 210-218
- Nitrates 249-252
- Nitrites 249-252
- Propionates 280-283
- Sorbates 200-203
- Sulphites 220-228
(Sulphites are most likely to cause reaction in asthmatics. Young children with allergies are likely to react to some or all of these foods. Usually they are not introduced until after a variety of “lower allergenic” foods have been successfully introduced into the diet.) |
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