REVIEW | Allergy Safe Family Food
February 12th 2009 06:18
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Allergy Safe Family Food
Allergy Safe Family Food
by Suzanna Paxton
ISBN: 9780732288846; ISBN10: 0732288843; Imprint: Harper Collins; On Sale: 1/02/2009; Format: Trade paperback; Trimsize: 150 x 210 x 18 mm; Pages: 240; $19.99;
allergysafe.com.au
Food allergies affect one in 20 children and one in 100 adults. (Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, 2008) The incidence of food allergy continues to rise. The most severe allergic reaction is called anaphylaxis, or an anaphylactic response which can be life-threatening!
185 easy and delicious allergy-safe recipes, is a wonderful addition to anyone's cookbook library. Combine the simplicity of the layout, the clarity of the recipes with the numbing facts; a food allergy is an adverse immune response to a food protein. Food allergy is distinct from other adverse responses to food, such as food intolerance, pharmacologic reactions, and toxin-mediated reactions. Treatment consists of avoidance diets, in which the allergic person avoids all forms of the food to which they are allergic.
Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them. The most common food allergies in adults are shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and eggs, and the most common food allergies in children are milk, eggs, peanuts, and tree nuts.
In recent years, the United States has been the leading exporter of peanuts. The major peanut importers are the European Union (EU), Canada, and Japan. These three areas account for 78% of the world's imports. India and China are the world's largest producers of peanuts but they account for a small part of international trade because most of their production is consumed domestically as peanut oil. Ninety percent of India's production is processed into peanut oil. Only a nominal amount of hand-picked select-grade peanuts are exported. India prohibits the importation of all oil seeds, including peanuts.
The European Union is the largest consuming region in the world that does not produce peanuts. All of its consumption is supplied by imports. Consumption of peanuts in the EU is primarily as food, mostly as roasted-in-shell peanuts and as shelled peanuts used in confectionery and bakery products. In 2008 Chocolate manufacturers used 20% of the world's peanuts.
Dr. George Washington Carver considered The Father of the Peanut Industry because of his research and dedication to promoting peanut production and products researched and developed more than 300 uses for peanuts in the early 1900s.
To list the range of products developed by the good Doctor will take a while, they include foods such as: salted peanuts, breakfast foods, bisque powder, peanut meal, chocolate coated peanuts, peanut cake, dry coffee, instant coffee, peanut hearts, mock oysters, worcestershire sauce, peanut food, peanut sprouts, peanut tofu sauce, cream from milk, buttermilk, milks, curds, vinegar, crystallized peanuts, peanut relish, peanut chocolate fudge, peanut and popcorn bars, peanut bar, peanut tutti-frutti bars, lard compound, sweet pickle, cheese cream, cheese pimento, cheese tutti-frutti, white pepper (from the vines), cocoa, peanut kisses, peanut wafers, peanut butter, butter from peanut milk, pancake flour, peanut surprise, malted peanuts, peanut meal, meat substitute, chilli sauce, peanut brittle, cream candy, peanut flakes, chop suey sauce, mayonnaise, peanut meat loaf, shredded peanuts, cooking oil, salad oil, mock meat, mock veal cutlet, mock chicken, mock duck, mock goose, peanut sausage, flavouring paste, oleomargarine, dehydrated milk flakes, caramel, butterscotch, evaporated milk, golden nuts, substitute asparagus, cheese nut sage, cheese sandwich, plain pickle, peanut dainties, bar candy. Beverages: peanut orange punch, normal peanut beverage, plum punch, cherry punch, peanut lemon punch, peanut punch, beverage for ice cream, blackberry punch, evaporated peanut beverage, pineapple punch. Medicines: rubbing oil, tanic acid, emulsion for bronchitis, castor oil substitute, iron tonic, goiter treatment, quinine, laxatives.
Without going into the various Stock Feeds and Cosmetics that peanuts are used in, you start to see how peanuts have found their way into a lot of food products, Start putting all of these things together and imagine what it must be like to have an allergy to peanuts. You are better off creating your own food for safety.
If you have no allergy to anything but you have friends who do - well, it's nice to be able to accommodate isn't it?
Suzanna Paxton sets things out plainly; the emphasis is on nut free, egg free, dairy free, soy free, gluten free, wheat free, fish/shellfish free, sesame seed free and vegetarian meals. The bold codes work well and there's a broad variety of dishes to try. Not every dish is free of every thing so you have to keep your wits about you. Clearly Stir-fried Scallops with Snow Peas has shell fish in it, and if you are able to eat it, look out - it's very quick simple and yummy.
Ideas of what to do to mix up the kids lunch box are welcome and take a good percentage of the book along with Allergy Management and a Shopping Guide.
So back to what I started with - this is a welcome edition to anyone's library.
David Jobling
Sources:
furtherresearch
food reference
Peanut Trade
food-ingredients
consumer affairs
by Suzanna Paxton
ISBN: 9780732288846; ISBN10: 0732288843; Imprint: Harper Collins; On Sale: 1/02/2009; Format: Trade paperback; Trimsize: 150 x 210 x 18 mm; Pages: 240; $19.99;
allergysafe.com.au
Food allergies affect one in 20 children and one in 100 adults. (Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, 2008) The incidence of food allergy continues to rise. The most severe allergic reaction is called anaphylaxis, or an anaphylactic response which can be life-threatening!
185 easy and delicious allergy-safe recipes, is a wonderful addition to anyone's cookbook library. Combine the simplicity of the layout, the clarity of the recipes with the numbing facts; a food allergy is an adverse immune response to a food protein. Food allergy is distinct from other adverse responses to food, such as food intolerance, pharmacologic reactions, and toxin-mediated reactions. Treatment consists of avoidance diets, in which the allergic person avoids all forms of the food to which they are allergic.
Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them. The most common food allergies in adults are shellfish, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and eggs, and the most common food allergies in children are milk, eggs, peanuts, and tree nuts.
In recent years, the United States has been the leading exporter of peanuts. The major peanut importers are the European Union (EU), Canada, and Japan. These three areas account for 78% of the world's imports. India and China are the world's largest producers of peanuts but they account for a small part of international trade because most of their production is consumed domestically as peanut oil. Ninety percent of India's production is processed into peanut oil. Only a nominal amount of hand-picked select-grade peanuts are exported. India prohibits the importation of all oil seeds, including peanuts.
The European Union is the largest consuming region in the world that does not produce peanuts. All of its consumption is supplied by imports. Consumption of peanuts in the EU is primarily as food, mostly as roasted-in-shell peanuts and as shelled peanuts used in confectionery and bakery products. In 2008 Chocolate manufacturers used 20% of the world's peanuts.
Dr. George Washington Carver considered The Father of the Peanut Industry because of his research and dedication to promoting peanut production and products researched and developed more than 300 uses for peanuts in the early 1900s.
To list the range of products developed by the good Doctor will take a while, they include foods such as: salted peanuts, breakfast foods, bisque powder, peanut meal, chocolate coated peanuts, peanut cake, dry coffee, instant coffee, peanut hearts, mock oysters, worcestershire sauce, peanut food, peanut sprouts, peanut tofu sauce, cream from milk, buttermilk, milks, curds, vinegar, crystallized peanuts, peanut relish, peanut chocolate fudge, peanut and popcorn bars, peanut bar, peanut tutti-frutti bars, lard compound, sweet pickle, cheese cream, cheese pimento, cheese tutti-frutti, white pepper (from the vines), cocoa, peanut kisses, peanut wafers, peanut butter, butter from peanut milk, pancake flour, peanut surprise, malted peanuts, peanut meal, meat substitute, chilli sauce, peanut brittle, cream candy, peanut flakes, chop suey sauce, mayonnaise, peanut meat loaf, shredded peanuts, cooking oil, salad oil, mock meat, mock veal cutlet, mock chicken, mock duck, mock goose, peanut sausage, flavouring paste, oleomargarine, dehydrated milk flakes, caramel, butterscotch, evaporated milk, golden nuts, substitute asparagus, cheese nut sage, cheese sandwich, plain pickle, peanut dainties, bar candy. Beverages: peanut orange punch, normal peanut beverage, plum punch, cherry punch, peanut lemon punch, peanut punch, beverage for ice cream, blackberry punch, evaporated peanut beverage, pineapple punch. Medicines: rubbing oil, tanic acid, emulsion for bronchitis, castor oil substitute, iron tonic, goiter treatment, quinine, laxatives.
Without going into the various Stock Feeds and Cosmetics that peanuts are used in, you start to see how peanuts have found their way into a lot of food products, Start putting all of these things together and imagine what it must be like to have an allergy to peanuts. You are better off creating your own food for safety.
If you have no allergy to anything but you have friends who do - well, it's nice to be able to accommodate isn't it?
Suzanna Paxton sets things out plainly; the emphasis is on nut free, egg free, dairy free, soy free, gluten free, wheat free, fish/shellfish free, sesame seed free and vegetarian meals. The bold codes work well and there's a broad variety of dishes to try. Not every dish is free of every thing so you have to keep your wits about you. Clearly Stir-fried Scallops with Snow Peas has shell fish in it, and if you are able to eat it, look out - it's very quick simple and yummy.
Ideas of what to do to mix up the kids lunch box are welcome and take a good percentage of the book along with Allergy Management and a Shopping Guide.
So back to what I started with - this is a welcome edition to anyone's library.
David Jobling
Sources:
furtherresearch
food reference
Peanut Trade
food-ingredients
consumer affairs
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