Table 3 Foods containing allergens according to hospital meal content
From: Food allergy safety: a descriptive report of changing policy in a single large medical center
Type of food allergy | Foods to avoid according to meal type |
|---|---|
Milk/milk products | |
Breakfast | Cheese of any kind: white cheese, cottage, yellow cheese. Dairy products such as: yogurt and cream Drinks containing milk/ milk-based: cocoa, coffee with milk, milk. Any food with milk products |
Lunch | In accordance with the Kosher food menu in the hospital, milk and milk products are not served at lunch |
Dinner | Foods containing milk, any kind of cheese or any other milk product such as: pizza and quiche |
Celiac: gluten intolerance- wheat flour, barley, oats and rye | |
Breakfast | Regular bread of any kind, pancakes, cakes, muffins, cornflakes and other kinds of cold cereals, hot cereals such as oatmeal and semolina, cookies, pretzels, and any product that includes gluten (wheat flour), which may include salad dressings |
Lunch | Food flavored with soup powder, schnitzel or breaded fish, meatballs of any kind containing breadcrumbs, ready-made meatballs (unless clearly labeled as “gluten-free”), soy sauce, couscous, pasta, wheat groats, grits |
Dinner | Regular bread of any kind, muffins, quiche and vegetable pies that include gluten, pancakes, pizza, cakes, biscuits, foods containing gluten (wheat flour), energy snacks, soy sauce |
Egg | |
Breakfast | Eggs made in any way, pancakes, cakes, cookies, muffins |
Lunch | Schnitzel, chicken/turkey/meatballs, breaded fish, vegetable and chicken pies |
Dinner | Eggs made in any way, pancakes, cakes, cookies, any kind of pie, muffins |
Allergy to soy (soy, tofu and other soy products) | |
Breakfast | Bread, buns, cornflakes, soy lecithin (widely used in the food industry) |
Lunch | Foods cooked in soy oil, vegetarian soy-based products as well as industrialized dishes such as frozen fish meatballs (may contain soy protein), soy sauce, lecithin soy, quinoa/bulgar/ potato-based meatballs |
Dinner | Foods cooked in soy oil, bread, buns, cornflakes, all industrialized products that may contain soy protein such as pies and corn schnitzel and similar products, soy sauce, soy lecithin |
Sesame allergy: (sesame, tahini, halva, sesame oil) | |
Breakfast | Bread, buns, tahini, dairy, halva, salads with sesame |
Lunch | Schnitzel/ fried fish with sesame coating, raw or cooked vegetables containing sesame seeds, tahini, sesame oil |
Dinner | Bread, bun, tahini, halva, salad with sesame, pretzels with sesame |
a Allergies to fish/seafood | |
Breakfast | Tuna, sardines |
Lunch | Any fish |
Dinner | Tuna, sardines, any fish |
Allergy to nuts/ almonds (walnuts, almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios, other nuts | |
Breakfast | Added nuts, cornflakes/granola/morning cereals containing any kind of nuts, nut spreads, fresh soy milk |
Lunch | A main course with nuts or almond additions, salad containing nuts, rice or other carbohydrates cooked with nuts |
Dinner | Added nuts, quiche with nuts or snacks containing nuts, cornflakes/granola/morning cereals containing any kind of nuts, nut spreads, fresh soy milk |
Peanuts allergy | |
Breakfast | Peanuts/ packaged snacks containing peanuts, peanut butter / peanut pastry |
Lunch | A main course with peanuts, any peanut-containing salads |
Dinner | Peanuts/ packaged snacks containing peanuts or peanut butter |