NO-ALLERGY DIET: CORN-FREE AND YEAST-FREE DIETS
Corn-free diet
Corn may be a gift from the Aztecs. But if you have corn allergy, it’s a nuisance. Perhaps it’s easy enough to avoid corn meal, corn-starch, corn flour, corn syrup and maybe even corn oil. But a glance at Table 5 shows how easily corn can creep into practically every meal, obvious or disguised, unless you plan your diet carefully. As with milk-free and wheat-free diets, you have to learn the tricks of the food trade when it comes to hidden sources of corn. Oil added to peanut butter, for instance, isn’t peanut oil at all, but corn oil.
Sometimes the corn problem is in the container. ‘You think you’re avoiding corn, but then you drink from a paper cup, and that may be coated with cornstarch,’ says Dr Failiers. ‘Or your milk carton may have cornstarch. I know people who get their milk in glass containers for that reason.’
The less processed and sugar laden your diet, the easier it will be to avoid corn in its many guises. In addition, follow these general rules.
1. Read labels carefully. Avoid any food listing not only corn, cornflour, corn oil and com syrup, but the sugars: glucose, dextrose, dextrin, dextrimaltose and fructose. Corn is also a major source of sugar. Any sugar not specifically marked ‘cane sugar’ or ‘beat sugar’ may contain corn.
2. Cough syrups, cough drops, lozenges, pills, tablets and suppositories often contain corn. ‘If your allergy pills contain cornstarch,’ Dr Failiers told us, ‘they may actually make you sicker.’ If you must take medication, ask your pharmacist for a corn-free product. Consult your doctor before changing or stopping any medication.
3. Vitamin and mineral supplements may also be corn based. See the Appendix for a list of corn-free nutritional supplements.
4. Arrowroot or tapioca may be substituted in recipes calling for cornflour as a thickener.
If you’re puzzled because you can eat corn on the cob but not commercial canned or frozen corn, you may be allergic to the sulphur dioxide used in corn processing rather than the corn itself.
Yeast-free diet
Yeasts are wondrous little one-celled plants that turn dough into bread and cider into vinegar. Like moulds, yeasts are a fungus – and just as apt to cause allergies in people sensitive to fungus. To avoid yeast (and mould) in your diet, you’ll need to steer clear of not only the obvious foods – mushrooms, bread and vinegar – but also certain cheeses, condiments, drugs and nutritional supplements. It’s a lot easier to eliminate a food ingredient of any kind if you avoid commercial packaged foods and stick to whole, unprocessed food.
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