Ingredients to Avoid by Allergen
As your family adjusts to living with some food restrictions, there are foods you always will need to avoid. In today’s world you will see that ingredients are not so straight forward. For example, milk is not just milk. This is a list of foods to avoid, but if you are ever in doubt about an ingredient do not feed that food to your child.
For an Milk-free diet please avoid:
Butter, butter fat, butter oil, butter acid, butter ester
Buttermilk
Casein
Casein hydrolysate
Caseinates (in all forms)
Cheese
Cottage Cheese
Cream
Curds
Custard
Diacetyl
Ghee
Half- and- half
Lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate
Lactoferrin
Lactose
Lactulose
Milk (in all forms like condensed, derivative, dry, evaporated, goat’s milk, milk from all other animals, lowfat, malted, milk fat, nonfat, powder, protein, skimmed, solid, whole
Milk protein hydrolysate
Pudding
Recaident
Rennet casein
Sour cream, sour cream solids
Sour milk solids
Tagatose
Whey (in all forms)
Why protein hydrolysate
Yogurt
Milk is sometimes found in:
Artificial butter flavor
Baked goods
Caramel candies
Chocolate
Lactic acid starter
Culture and other bacterial cultures
Luncheon meat, hot dogs, sausages
Margarine
Nisin
Non Dairy products
Nougat
Avoid foods that contain wheat or any of these:
Bread crumbs
Bulgur
Cereal extract
Club wheat
Couscous
Craker Meal
Durum
Einkorn
Emmer
Farina
Flour (all purpose, bread, cake, durum, enriched, graham, high gluten, high protein, instant pastry, self-rising, soft wheat, steel ground, stone ground, whole wheat)
Hydolyzed wheat protein
Kamut
Matzoh, matzoh meal (matzo, matzah, matza)
Pasta
Seitan
Semolina
Spelt
Sprouted wheat
Triticale
Vital wheat gluten
Wheat (bran, durum, germ, gluten, grass, malt, sprouts, starch)
Wheat bran hydrolysate
Wheat germ oil
Wheat grass
Wheat protein isolate
Whole wheat berries
Wheat is sometimes found in:
Glucose syrup
Oats
Soy sauce
Starch (gelatinized starch, modified starch, modified food starch, vegetable starch)
Surimi
With an Egg-free diet please avoid:
Albumin or Albumen
Egg (dried, powdered, solids, white, yok)
Egg (chicken, duck, turkey, goose, quail)
Egg nog
Globulin
Livetin
Lysozyme
Mayonnaise
Meringue (meringue powder)
Surimi
Vitellin
Words starting with Ovo, or Ova like ovalbumin
Egg is sometimes in:
Baked goods
Breaded items
Drink foam (cocktails, specialty coffee)
Egg substitutes
Fried rice
Ice cream
Lecithin
Marzipan
Marshmallows
Meatloaf, meatballs
Nougat
Pasta
For a Soy-free diet please avoid:
Edamame
Miso
Natto
Soy (soy albumin, soy cheese, soy fiber, soy flour, soy grits, soy ice cream, soy milk, soy nuts, soy sprouts, soy yogurt)
Soya
Soybean (curd, granules)
Soy protein (concentrate, hydrolozed isolate)
Shoyu
Soy sauce
Tamari
Tempeh
Textured Vegetable protein
Tofu
Sometimes soy is in:
Asian cuisine
Veg broth
Veg gum
Veg starch
Most people that are soy allergic do not need to avoid:
Soy Lecithin
Soy bean oil
These are both highly processed and have very little soy protein.
Avoid foods that contain peanuts or any of these
Artificial nuts
Beer nuts
Cold pressed, expeller pressed, or extruded peanut oil
Goobers
Ground nuts
Mixed nuts
Monkey nuts
Nut pieces
Nut meat
Peanut butter
Peanut flour
Peanut protein hydrolysate
Peanut is sometimes found in the following:
African, Asian (especially Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Thai, and Vietnamese) and Mexican dishes
Baked goods (e.g. pastries, cookies)
Candy (including chocolate candy)
Chili
Egg Rolls
Enchilada sauce
Marzipan
Mole sauce
Nougat
With a tree nut-free diet avoid:
Almond
Artificial nuts
Beechnut
Brazil nut
Butternut
Cashew
Chestnut
Chinquapin nut
Filbert/hazelnut
Gianduja (a chocolate-nut mixture)
Ginkgo nut
Hickory nut
Litchi/lychee/lycheenut
Macadamia nut
Marzipan/almond paste
Nangai nut
Natural nut extract (e.g. almond, walnut)
Nut butters (e.g. cashew butter)
Nut meal
Nut meat
Nut paste (e.g. almond paste)
Nut pieces
Pecan
Pesto
Pili nut
Pine nut (also referred to as Indian, pignoli, pignolia, pignon, pinon, and pinyon nut)
Pistachio
Praline
Shea nut
Walnut
Tree nuts are sometimes found in:
Black walnut hull extract (flavoring)
Natural nut extract
Nut distillates/alcoholic extracts
Nut oils (e.g. walnut oil, almond oil)
Walnut hull extract (flavoring)
For a Shellfish-Free Diet please avoid:
Barnacle
Crab
Crawfish (crawdad, crayfish, ecrevisse)
Krill
Lobster (langouste, langoustine, Moreton bay bugs, scampi, tornalley)
Prawns
Shrimp (crevette, scampi)
Your doctor may advise you to avoid mollusks or these ingredients:
Abalone
Clams (cherrystone, geoduck, littleneck, pismo, quahog)
Cockle
Cuttlefish
Limpet (lapas, opihi)
Mussels
Octopus
Periwinkle
Scallops
Sea cucumber
Sea urchin
Snails (escargot)
Squid (calamari)
Whelk (Turban shell)
Shellfish are sometimes found in the following:
Bouillabaisse
Cuttlefish ink
Glucosamine
Fish Stock
Seafood flavoring (e.g. crab or clam extract)
Surimi
Fish is sometimes found in the following:
Barbecue sauce
Bouillabaisse
Caesar salad
Caviar
Deep fried items
Fish flavoring
Fish flour
Fish fume
Fish gelatin (kosher gelatin, marine gelatin)
Fish oil
Fish sauce imitation fish or shellfish isinglass lutefish maw, maws (fish maw)
Fish stock
Fishmeal
Nuoc mam (Vietnamese name for fish sauce; beware of other ethnic names)
Pizza (anchovy topping)
Roe
Salad dressing
Seafood flavoring
Shark cartilage
Shark fin
Surimi
Sushi, sashimi
Worcestershire sauce