Thou-Shalt-Not

Below is a helpful list of foods to avoid and foods to be aware of according to specific food intolerances and allergies. These lists are not inclusive as they are only meant as a guide. Always remember to read every label as unsuspected ingredients are VERY common especially in heavily processed foods. It is also important to note that product ingredients are subject to, and do, change frequently. For this reason it is important to regularly read the ingredients list on familiar products as well as new products for intolerant foods.

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MILK FREE Diet

Milk Containing Ingredients:
- Butter
- Casein
- Casenates
- Cheese (this includes all cheeses. For a full list of names please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cheeses )
- Cream (this includes sour cream, light cream, whipping cream, ice cream, coffee creamers)
- Ghee
- Kefir
- Lactalbumin
- Lactoglobulin
- Lactose
- Lactylate
- Milk (this includes cow's milk, sheep's milk, goat's milk, Lactaid™, Lacteeze™, lactose-free milk, acidophilus milk, milk solids, milk powder, buttermilk)
- Quark
- Whey
- Yoghurt's

Products Commonly Containing Milk Ingredients:
- Baking Mixes
- Batter
- Breakfast Cereals
- Breadcrumbs
- Breads
- Biscuits
- Crackers
- Caramel
- Chocolate
- Chocolate Spreads
- Colas
- Custard
- Energy Bars/Protein Bars
- Energy Drinks
- Gravy
- Hard Sweets/Candy
- Hot Dogs
- Indian Food
- Margarine
- Mayonnaise (Hellman's 'Original' is OK, 'Light' is not)
- Muffins
- Nuts with Coatings
- Pastries
- Pepperoni
- Processed Meats
- Potato Crisps
- Potato Wedges
- Red Wine
- Salad Dressings
- Salami
- Seasoning Mixes
- Sorbets
- Soups
- Stuffing
- Sugar Substitutes
- Vitamin Supplements

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WHEAT FREE Diet

Wheat Containing Ingredients:
- Bran
- Bulgar
- Cereal Extract
- Couscous
- Cracker Meal
- Durum
- Farina
- Gluten
- Graham
- Kamut
- Malt
- Matzoh
- Seitan
- Semolina
- Spelt
- Triticale
- Wheat (this includes wheat berries, wheat germ, wheat bran, wheat starch, sprouted wheat, wheatena, wheat gluten, whole wheat, cracked wheat, wheaten)
- Wheat Flours (this includes durum flour, enriched flour, protein flour, self-raising flour, pastry flour, bread flour, unbleached flour, all-purpose flour, phosphated flour, multigrain flour, gluten-enriched flour, graham flour)

Wheat Containing Ingredients Unless Otherwise Stated As 'WheatFree':
- Breads (this includes white bread, 60% wheat bread, wholewheat bread, sourdough bread, multigrain bread)
- Gelantinized Starch
- Glucose Syrup (European products)
- Grain Coffee Substitute
- Granola
- Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
- Hydrolyzed Plant Protein (HPP)
- Malt
- Modified Starch
- Postum
- Starch (unless source is named i/e 'corn starch')
- Soya Sauce
- Vegetable Gum

Products Commonly Containing Wheat Ingredients:
- Battered Products
- Bouillon Cubes
- Breaded Products
- Breakfast Cereals
- Condiments
- Crackers
- Croquettes
- Egg noodles
- Gravy
- Ham Slices
- Hamburger Patties
- Hotdogs
- Icing Sugar
- Ketchup
- Luncheon Meats
- Marshmallows
- Meatballs
- Meatloaf
- Monosodium Glutamate (MSG)
- Pasta
- Paté
- Pie Fillings
- Processed Meats
- Seasoning Mixes
- Stock
- Sweets/Candy
- Salad Dressings
- Sauces
- Sausages
- Scotch Eggs
- Soups
- Stuffing
- Thickeners

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YEAST FREE Candida Diet

Yeast Containing and Yeast 'Aiding' Ingredients:
- Coffee
- Citric Acid
- Dextrose (this includes iodized table salt)
- Fruit (the includes melons, grapes, tomatoes, pineapples, citrus fruits, all dried fruit. Please note that lemons and limes are not citrus fruits as they are actually alkaline)
- Gluten (this includes wheat and to a lesser extent rye, oats and barley)
- Hydrogenated Margarines
- Parsnips (in moderation)
- Potatoes (in moderation)
- Refined Carbohydrates (this includes white flour, white rice, white pasta, refined pasta)
- Sugar (this includes refined sugar, unrefined sugar, raw cane sugar, honey, molasses, maple syrup, rice syrup, sugar substitutes, lactose, alcoholic drinks, fruit sugar, fruit juices, fizzy drinks, fructose, sucrose, corn syrup)
- Tea
- Tobacco
- Yeast (this includes risen breads, soya sauce, yeast spreads such as Marmite™, mushrooms, cheese, malt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), vinegar, miso, tempeh, tofu, processed meats, smoked meat, smoked fish, peanuts, pickled foods, all dried fruit, all fermented products such as beer, wine, spirits etc., foods that are not fresh, nuts not in their shells or freshly opened)


Exceptions to the Above:
- Fruit (note the necessity for complete elimination of fruit from a yeast free diet is debatable for more than 3 weeks. Permissible fruits after this time include bananas, apples, pears, mango, paw paw, avocados, lemons, limes)
- Sea Salt
- Tamari
- Soft Vegetarian Goat's Cheese
- Spelt
- Raw Unsalted sauerkraut
- Naturally Leavened Sourdough Bread such as Russian Rye
- Sprouted Sourdough Rye
- Organic Raw Unfiltered Cider Vinegar

For those not suffering from Candida and are only excluding actual yeast from their diets please note that fresh fruits and sugars can be eaten but where the fruit has a 'haze' on the skin before washing (mainly on grapes and plums) that this is actually yeast formation which grows on the surface. The yeast can be removed by washing well. Similarly mushrooms will need to be washed/peeled and dried fruit should be avoided altogether as the yeast cannot be 'washed' off understandably enough.
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EGG FREE Diet

Egg Containing Ingredients:
- Albumin
- Antigenic Egg White Proteins (this includes ovalbumin, conalbumin or ovotransferrin, ovomucoid, lysozyme, catalase, ovoflavoprotein, ficin inhibitor, ovoglycoprotein, G2 & G3 globulins, ovomacroglobulin, ribonuclease, ovoinhibitor, avidin)
- Antigenic Egg Yolk Proteins (this includes lipovitellin, phosvitin, low-density liproteins, livetins)
- Dried Egg Solids
- Egg Beaters™
- Egg Powder
- Egg Protein
- Egg White
- Egg Yolk
- Frozen Egg
- Globulin
- Lysozyme
- Ovalbumin
- Ovomucin
- Ovomucoid
- Ovoviellin
- Pasturized Egg
- Powdered Egg
- Simplesse

Products Commonly Containing Egg Ingredients:
- Baking Mixes
- Binders for Meat (this includes hamburgers, meatballs, meatloaf, processed meat)
- Breads
- Condiments
- Consommé
- Custards
- Egg noodles
- Glazed Meat
- Glazed and/or Coated Nuts
- Ice Cream
- Instant or Flavoured Oatmeal
- Instant Cream of Wheat
- Marshmallows
- Mayonnaise
- Meringue
- Moussé
- Nougat
- Pasta
- Pastries
- Processed Meat
- Salad Dressings
- Sauces (this includes hollandaise, béarnaise)
- Soufflé


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GLUTEN FREE Diet

Gluten Containing Ingredients:
- Cereal (this includes cereal protein)
- Couscous
- Barley (this includes, malted barley, pearl barley, barley starch)
- Bran
- Bulgar (this includes cracked wheat)
- Glucose Syrup unless otherwise stated (European products)
- Graham Flour
- Kamut
- Malt
- Malted Milk
- Malt Vinegar (however, distilled white vinegar is gluten free)
- Oats (this includes oat bran, oat germ, oatmeal, rolled oats and porridge oats. However, the Gluten in oats is not the Gliadin variety and may be tolerated by some)
- Ovaltine
- Rusk
- Rye (this includes rye starch)
- Semolina
- Spelt
- Triticale
- Wheat (this includes durum wheat, wheat bran, wheat germ, wheat meal, wheat rusk, wheat starch)

Products Commonly Containing Gluten Ingredients:

- Artificial Cream
- Baked Beans
- Baking Powder
- Batter
- Binders
- Bologna
- Bombay Mix
- Canned Fruit
- Caramel Colour
- Cocoa
- Coffee (Instant, Powdered or Decaffeinated)
- Commercial Breakfast Cereals
- Corn Tortillas
- Cornflakes
- Crackers
- Curry Paste
- Dextrin
- Dry Roasted Nuts
- Emulsifiers
- Fat-Free Dairy Products
- Feta Cheese
- Fish Sauce
- Fizzy Drinks with a 'cloudy' appearance
- Flavoured Crisps
- Flavoured Yoghurt
- Flavourings
- Flours
- Frozen Chips
- Gravies
- Hamburger Patties
- Hydrolysed Plant Protein (HPP)
- Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein (HVP)
- Ice Cream made with Wheat Stabilizers
- Icing Sugar
- Imitation Seafood
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard (i.e Dijon, Grain)
- Mustard Powder (Indeed any powdered product may contain gluten containing flours to add bulk)
- Oyster Sauce
- Packaged Rice Mixes
- Popcorn
- Poppadoms
- Pretzels
- Processed Foods (This includes tinned foods and pre-grated cheese, etc)
- Processed Meats
- Protein Powder
- Puffed Rice
- Rice Milk
- Rice Noodles
- Rice Paper
- Rice Syrup
- Salad Dressing
- Sauces
- Sausages
- Scotch Eggs
- Seasoning Mixes
- Sesame Sticks
- Sliced Ham
- Some cheaper commercial spices
- Some lesser quality ground almonds
- Soups
- Soya Milk
- Soya Sauce
- Stabilizers
- Starch
- Stews
- Stocks (i.e Chicken Stock, Beef Stock)
- Suet
- Sweets
- Taco Shells
- Thickeners
- Vegetable Gum (however please note that the following gums are gluten free: carob bean, locust gum, cellulose, guar gum, gum arabic, gum aracia, gum tragacanth, xantham, vegetable starch)
- Veined Cheese
- White Pepper
- Yeast Extract