Sometimes, even after doing comprehensive work to introduce allergens into your diet, you may find that there are some foods that you still can’t eat without a reaction. Many people have more complex allergies to foods like dairy, sugar and wheat.
If you are one of these people, you may have to eliminate these allergens from your diet completely. Fortunately, there is plenty of information and support for living a dairy-free, sugar-free or wheat-free lifestyle. Today we will discuss dairy-free living.
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Dairy-Free Living
When you have a dairy allergy, you may be actually reacting to the casein produced in milk. Milk allergies — this means that all dairy products, including yogurt, ice cream, sour cream, cheese and butter, should be eliminated to avoid a reaction.
Some people are able to tolerate casein more easily, and are fine as long as they don’t have dairy and milk products in their whole form. If you are one of them, you may also be reacting to lactose, an enzyme. Try Lactaid products, which have the lactose eliminated, before limiting dairy in all its forms.
Many “non-dairy” products on the market include casein. For example, soy cheese, almond cheese and rice cheese all contain casein. You can identify foods that contain casein by looking at the label of ingredients. Casein is present in ingredient lists that contain the following words: casein, caseinate, calcium caseinate, ammonia caseinate, magnesium caseinate, potassium caseinate, and sodium caseinate. If you have extreme reactions to dairy, then you should avoid all processed foods that contain these ingredients.
Diana Walker, Cravings Coach
Diana Walker provides delicious, nutritious and easy Gluten-free recipes and foods at Diana’s Healthy Gluten Free Whole Foods Lifestyles
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