FOOD SENSITIVITY: A TYPICAL LOW-ALLERGEN DIET_
The following diet is typical of the kind sometimes recommended if you get confusing results from single-food testing, or if you are suspected of multiple food sensitivity. Often called a low-allergen diet, it is helpful in identifying both food allergy and intolerance. It excludes all foods that commonly cause sensitivity, plus all manufactured and processed foods and drinks.
Permitted Foods
All fresh meat, poultry and game (except chicken and smoked, salted or pickled foods)
All fresh vegetables
All fresh fruit, except citrus. Do not eat: Orange Citron
Buckwheat, Sago, Tapioca, Quinoa Olive oil
Sea salt or Pure Salt BP Black pepper, white pepper Herbs Spices
To drink: Water (preferably filtered or bottled Buxton, Evian, or Malvern)
Some versions of the diet also permit the following foods, unless you already know that you are sensitive to them. Free-range chicken
All fresh fish (not smoked, salted, pickled or canned) All nuts and seeds
All beans and pulses (not canned, nor manufactured, processed
e.g. not baked beans or soya milk) Vegetable, fruit and nut oils (not corn oil, or rice oil) Honey
It is preferable to eat organic foods and field-fed meat and free-range poultry, if you can possibly manage it (>pages 166-7 for sources).
Grapefruit Lemon
Tangelo
Pomelo
Ugli
Satsuma
Tangerine
Clementine
Kumquat Lime
Milk (cow, goat, sheep) and its products (butter, yogurt, cream, cheese)
Grains and cereals (wheat, oats, rice, corn, barley, millet) and all their products (e.g. bread, cakes, biscuits, crackers, crispbreads, pies, pastry, oils, malt, pasta, bakery etc)
All sugars (cane, beet, maple, fructose) and their products (treacle, syrup, molasses) ”
Citrus fruits (see list above)
Salted, smoked and pickled meat, poultry and fish (e.g. bacon, ham, kippers)
Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate and beverages
Alcohol
Vinegar
Yeast and yeast extract
All manufactured and processed foods
Do not eat: Canned food and drink
Fruit juices, drinks and squashes Dried fruit
Sweets and chocolate
Chewing-gum
Margarine
Jams, marmalades and spreads Pickles
Sauces and mustard Bread and baked foods Snack foods, nuts and crisps Cooked meats, sausages and pies Pastes and spreads Prepared dishes, cook-chill foods
Organising the Diet
You can eat as much of the permitted foods as you want and at any time of day. You follow the diet for five to seven days to see if symptoms clear, and then start to reintroduce foods to test them.
Most people find that they get very hungry on this diet and need to eat large amounts of the permitted foods to keep going. Root vegetables, such as potatoes, sweet potato, carrot, swedes, parsnip or turnip can be very useful to fill you up, as can buckwheat. If you are able to eat nuts, seeds and beans and pulses, these are also filling. You may also have to eat unconventional meals – a grilled chop for breakfast, say, or a baked potato as a mid-morning meal to keep you going.
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