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Table 7.1.1 Foods to avoid and suggested alternatives

Food to be Foods and ingredients to avoid Foods to replace the excluded food
excluded by the
child Butter, casein, cheese, cow/sheep/goat’s GP can prescribe a replacement milk for
Milk milk, evaporated or condensed milk, cream, infants. Children can use a prescribed
yogurt, fromage frais, cheese, ice cream, replacement milk or calcium-enriched soya
Egg curd, ghee, lactoglobulin, lactose, milk or oat milks, soya-based yogurts and
solids, whey, yogurt, milk proteins desserts and tofu
Wheat
Albumin, dried egg, egg powder, egg Meat, fish, nuts and pulses
Foods containing protein, egg white and yolk, frozen egg,
gluten globulin, lecithin (E322), livetin, ovalbumin,
ovoglobulin, ovomucin, ovovitellin,
Fish or shellfish pasteurized egg, vitellin

Peanuts – also Bran, breadcrumbs, bulgar wheat, cereal Rice, potatoes, wheat-free breads, pasta
known as ground filler, couscous, durum wheat, farina, flour, and flours, sago, tapioca, quinoa and millet,
nuts rusk, semolina, starch, vegetable protein, buckwheat
wheatgerm and wheatgerm oil
Other nuts which
are called tree Bran, breadcrumbs, bulgar wheat, cereal Rice, potatoes, corn, maize, sago, tapioca,
nuts filler, couscous, durum wheat, farina, flour, quinoa, millet and gluten-free cereals,
rusk, semolina, starch, vegetable protein, breads and flour
Soya wheatgerm and wheatgerm oil, rye, barley Gluten-free products can be prescribed by a
and oats, spelt GP for children diagnosed with coeliac
Sesame disease

Anchovy, Worcestershire sauce, aspic, Meat, eggs, nuts and pulses
caviar, fish stock and fish sauce To replace the omega 3 fats in fish: walnuts
and walnut oil, rapeseed oil

Peanuts, ground nuts, peanut oil which Meat, fish, eggs and pulses
could also be called arachis oil or hypogeaia,
peanut flour, peanut protein. It is best to
avoid all other nuts as well as they may be
contaminated with small amounts of
peanuts

Almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, Meat, fish, eggs and pulses
pecan nuts, Brazil nuts, pistachio nuts,
macadamia nuts and Queensland nuts (You
do not need to avoid coconut, pine nuts,
nutmeg and butternut squash)
Pesto often contains cashew nuts

Hydrolysed vegetable protein, soya lecithin, Meat, fish, eggs and nuts
soya sauce, miso, soya albumin, soya beans,
soya flour, soya milk, soya nuts, soya oil,
soya proteins, soya sprouts, tempeh,
texturized vegetable protein, tofu

Sesame seeds, sesame oil, tahini, aqualibra –
drinks

Naan breads, breakfast muffins and pancakes are ingredients to check for anything that needs to be
usually soya free. avoided – even when the food product is well used.
Sometimes the manufacturer may change the
Food Labels recipe slightly and include new ingredients. The
label will not always be modified to say ‘new’ or
Parents, carers and older children need to check ‘improved’.
food labels very carefully by reading the list of