Eating Out Made Easy (Easier) for Allergy Sufferers

There is a wide variety of food allergies that people can suffer from. The severity of a sufferer’s reaction is also something that runs on a spectrum from very mild to potentially fatal. For people who suffer with acute allergies life managing and organising their diet is a constant struggle. Enjoying a restaurant may be something that is simply out of the question because of the possibility of cross contamination of allergens.



For other less severe sufferers allergic reactions are an unpleasant and inconvenient fact of life. Venturing out to a restaurant may not be life threatening, but it can still be an irritating and stressful process to find food that can be consumed.



Over recent years a greater focus has been placed on the need for restaurants to provide relevant allergy information, and on 13th December 2014 this became EU law. Now restaurants are required by law to publish allergy information on their websites.





The Gluten Free Revolution

Gluten intolerance has been popularised over recent years. There appears to be both an increase in the number of people suffering from gluten sensitivity and those who want to cut out gluten for its perceived health benefits.



It should be noted that having a sensitivity to gluten is not the same as coeliac disease. This is where sufferers are completely unable to eat gluten as it damages the lining of the stomach and can lead to serious problems.



Nevertheless the popularity of cutting out gluten continues to grow with celebrity endorsements from people like Novak Djokovic. He claims his gluten free diet gives him more energy and improved stamina out on the court. However some people simply avoid gluten to reduce that bloated felling.



Eating Out with a Food Allergy

With all this new useful allergy information available on the websites of restaurants all over the country there seems to be a need to pull it all together in one place, and this is exactly what Buyagift.co.uk have done. They’ve put together an interactive guide that covers a large portion of the UK’s national restaurants. It has links to all the allergy information published by each company, and there may also be access to the gluten free menu if a company has produced one. If you have a food intolerance then Eating Out with a Food Allergy should be your first reference point before you book a table.

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Posted: Tuesday 19th April 2016
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