Food Allergies

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Egg
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Corn Allergies     Top
Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain corn.

  • Adhesives (envelopes, labels, stickers, tapes, stamps)
  • Any products that contain cornmeal, corn flour, corn oil, cornstarch, corn sugar, corn syrup or sorbitol.
  • Aspirin
  • Bacon
  • Baking powder (most)
  • Bath or body powder
  • Beer, ale, gin, whisky
  • Biscuits
  • Bisquick
  • Breads (commercial)
  • Brown sugar
  • Cake, pancake and pie mixes
  • Candied fruit
  • Candy
  • Canned fruits (sweetened)
  • Canned or bottled juice drinks
  • Capsules
  • Carob (CaraCoa
  • Cereals (presweetened)
  • Coffee (instant)
  • Coffee Rich
  • Confectioner's sugar
  • Cookies
  • Corn kernels
  • Corn cereal
  • Corn chips
  • Cornmea
  • Corn oil and anything fried in it
  • Cornstarch
  • Corn sugar
  • Corn syrup
  • Cottage cheese (thickened)
  • Cranberry juice (some)
  • Custards
  • Doughnuts
  • Dried fruits (sweetened)
  • Fritos
  • Frostings
  • Frozen fruits (sweetened)
  • Fruit desserts
  • Graham crackers
  • Gravies
  • Ham (cured)
  • Hominy
  • Hot dogs
  • Ice cream
  • Infant formulas (Enfamil, Similac, Advance, Portagen, Lofenalac, Isomil, Prosobee, Nursoy
  • Powder [not liquid], Soyalac [not I-Soyalac], Pedialyte, Hydrolyzed casein, Nutramigen, Progestimil
  • Jellies and gelatin mixes
  • Luncheon meats
  • Maize
  • Milk in paper containers
  • Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
  • Ointments
  • Oleomargarine
  • Orange juice (some frozen or sweetened)
  • Paper cups, cartons, plates and any liquids contained in them
  • Peanut butter (commercial sweetened
  • Pie fillings
  • Plastic food wrappers (some)
  • Popcorn
  • Puddings
  • Sandwich spreads
  • Sauces that have been thickened but are transparent (e.g. Chinese style)
  • Sausages
  • Sherbet
  • Sticky portion of envelopes and stamps
  • Sorbitol
  • Succotash
  • Suppositories
  • Tablets (most medicinal)
  • Tea (instant)
  • Toothpastes/powders
  • Vitamins (some)
  • Yogurt (thickened or sweetened)
  • Zest soap

*A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.

Egg Allergies     Top
Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain egg.

  • Albumen
  • Baked goods (cakes, cookies, muffins, some pies, etc.)
  • Some bread, candy and coffee
  • Creamed foods
  • Croquettes
  • Crusts (if shiny bread, etc.)
  • Custards
  • Egg whites
  • Powdered or dried egg
  • French toast
  • Fritters
  • Frostings
  • Ice cream (Bavarian, custard, French vanilla)
  • Mayonnaise
  • Meringue
  • Mousse
  • Root beer
  • Salad dressing
  • Sauces (hollandaise)
  • Sausage
  • Souffle
  • Soups (some)

*A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.

Milk Allergies     Top
Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain milk.

Dried, condensed, evaporated or liquid whole, 2%, 1%, skim, lactase treated, acidophilus milk and buttermilk. Anything made with any of the items in this list:
  • Breaded meat, fish or poultry
  • Butter
  • Casein or caseinate (milk protein)
  • Cheese
  • Cream
  • Custard
  • Egg replacers
  • Half-and-half
  • High calcium cereals
  • Hot dogs
  • Ice cream
  • Ice milk
  • Instant cocoa preparations
  • Lactalbumen
  • Lactoglobulin
  • Lactose (milk sugar)
  • Luncheon meats
  • Margarines (some)
  • Mashed, creamed, au gratin or scalloped dishes
  • "Nondairy" substitutes such as Coffee-Mate, Prem, and Cool Whip contain casein or caseinate
  • Omelets
  • Scrambled eggs
  • Sherbet
  • Sour cream
  • Whey
  • Whipped topping
  • Yogurt

*A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.

Soy Allergies     Top

Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain soy.
  • Adhesives
  • Animal fodder
  • Automobile parts
  • Blankets
  • Candles
  • Celluloid
  • Cloth
  • Cosmetics
  • Crisco
  • Dog and cat food (some)
  • Enamel
  • Fertilizer
  • Glycerin
  • Ice cream and ice milk
  • Infant soy formulas (Soyalac, I- Soyalac, Nursoy, Isomil, and Prosobee) 
Infant milk formulas (Enfamil, SMA, Similac, Advance, Portagen, Alimentum, Good Start)
  • Lecithin
  • Linoleum
  • Liquid protein foods
  • Margarine (Mrs. Filbert's soft, Land O'Lakes, Imperial, Parkay, Promise, Farmdale, Blue Bonnet, Mazola)
  • "Massage oils and creams
  • Nondairy products
  • Oils
  • Paint
  • Paper sizing and finishes
  • Protein bars and powders
  • Protein bars and powders
  • Puritan oil
  • Sherbet
  • Soap
  • Soybeans
  • Soy oil
  • Soy sauce
  • Soy nuts
  • Soy noodles
  • Soy sprouts
  • Spry Varnish

*A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.

Wheat Allergies     Top
Always read the ingredients on a product label to be sure they don't contain a substance you are allergic or sensitive to. When complete ingredients are not available, use the information here as a general guide.

The following is a list of products that contain wheat.
  • Any products that contain flour, bran, wheat germ, wheat starch or gluten
  • Baked goods
  • Bagels
  • Biscuits
  • Bread crumbs
  • Bread
  • Breakfast cereals
  • Cakes
  • Coffee substitutes
  • Cookies
  • Cracker meal
  • Crackers
  • Deep-fried foods (chicken, fish, vegetables, cheese sticks, etc.)
  • Dinner rolls
  • Doughnuts
  • Dumplings
  • Ice cream cones and sandwiches
  • Gravy
  • Hamburgers
  • Hot dogs
  • Luncheon meats
  • Malt
  • Muffins
  • Pancakes
  • Pasta (macaroni, spaghetti, lasagna, etc.
  • Pies
  • Pizza
  • Salad dressing
  • Sauces that have been thickened but are opaque (e.g. cream sauce)
  • Soups
  • Stuffing
  • Swiss steak
  • Waffles

*A major portion of this list comes from Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Is This Your Child? William Morrow, New York, 1991.