Issues in food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease, gut disorders, eczema, 'free from' and all allergies and sensitivities
The team behind Jamie Magazine are not the first people to err on the gluten-containing status of spelt, and neither will they be the last. Issue 27 contains four recipes which make use of the flour of triticum spelta and…
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Looking for a list of gluten-free crisps? Then click here. This list was last updated in July 2017. If you’re interested in the story of how Walkers Crisps went from being coeliac friendly to coeliac unfriendly back in 2012, continue reading…
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You’ll be aware that new Codex standards concerning the labelling of gluten-free and low-gluten foods came into force on the 1st January – although in practice most manufacturers have been compliant for some time. In a nutshell, food products containing…
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A lot of papers were wrong in the summer about the cost of coeliac bread prescriptions. £32.27 A LOAF, said the Sun, under the banner ‘Prescription Scandal’. Similar stories appeared in the Telegraph, the Mirror and the Mail. All these…
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I have just read what is in my view a fairly ignorant piece by Merryn Somerset Webb, editor in chief of Moneyweek. It’s here. Her view, also expressed on Twitter, is that coeliacs should no more get gluten-free food on…
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Did you hear the one about the French coeliac? He could only count to seven because he was huit intolerant. Groan. As feeble as you may think that joke is, hopefully it sort of demonstrates that I’m not someone who…
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“There is no such thing as an unhealthy food, only an unhealthy diet.” I read this recently on Twitter, but it’s a regularly repeated statement in matters health and nutrition. It’s a variation, of course, on the “there are no…
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He’s not the UK’s Damian Cardone by any stretch of the imagination, but coeliac chef Anthony Demetre has hardly endeared himself to British and Irish coeliacs this weekend by revealing on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen on the 9th April 2011 that…
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Internet-savvy coeliacs will be aware of the recent furore that kicked off online concerning an American chef by the name of Damian Cardone, who on his Facebook page earlier in March made some unsavoury comments about gluten-free diners at a…
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So this week’s news is that NICE has published the first evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and assessment of food allergy in young people and children. Here’s a link. The papers have it covered, and pretty well. Here’s The Telegraph,…
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