Additive Sensitivity
| Azo Dyes | |||
| E102 | Tartrazine | Yellow | Soft drinks, sweets, packet foods |
| E110 | Sunset yellow | Biscuits, packets and tinned foods | |
| E122 | Carmosine | Red | Jams, jelly and Preserves |
| E123 | Amaranth | Purple | Packet soups, tinned fruit pie fillings, tinned apple sauce, tinned shrimps and prawbs |
| E124 | Ponceau | Red | Dessert mixes |
| E128 | Red 2G | Red | Sausages, jams |
| E150 | Caramel Brown | Gravy Browning, beer, soy and brown sauces, sandwich pickles, Soft Drinks | |
| Other Artifical Colours | |||
| E104 | Quinoline Yellow | Mint Sauce, Scotch Eggs, smoked fish | |
| E127 | Erythrosine | Pink | Glace Cherries, Dessert mixes, cooked meats |
| E131 | Patent Blue V | Some Scotch Eggs | |
| E132 | Indigo Carmine | Blancmange, biscuits, sweets, blackcurrant jelly | |
| E133 | Brilliant Blue FCF | Canned peas | |
| Sweets and Icing Sugar colours may contain any of the above artificial colours | |||
| Flavour Enhancers | |||
| E621 | Monsodium Glutamate | Chinese Food, flavoured snacks / crisps, Stock Cubes, Dried Soups / Sauce Mixes | |
| NB: Most plain crisps, Kettle chips, plain Tortilla chips, Jonathan Crisp and other brands are available from health food shops. | |||
Alternatives
| Stock Cubes | 'Just Bouillon' (Kalo) from supermarkets and use cornflour or reduce meat and vegetable juices to thicken |
| Sweets | Naturally Sweet Company (may contain dairy) Haribo - 2 or 3 varieties are colorant free, e.g. cola bottles, jelly teddies, but DO check |
| Soy Sauces | Kikkoman, Tamari (also wheat free) |
| Jellies | Many companies now use natural colours |
| Cola | Whole Earth Organic |
| Natural colourings | Annato, Anthocyanin |
Please note that any diets and dietary advice in the Patient Guidance section of our website are only intended for the patients attending our own clinics in Southampton and London. These diets are based on a recommendation made by one of the Centre doctors after an appropriate consultation. Our advice relating to use of a particular restricted diet is really only appropriate for individual patients who have consulted us and have been individually assessed by one of the doctors from the Centre and advised that they should follow a particular dietary regime. We do not recommend that people use restricted diets without proper medical supervision. We also recommend to our patients that they should not use a restricted diet for more than 6 weeks in the first instance without further consultation with us, as it may result in nutritional deficiencies. Sometimes food exclusion diets may be clinically effective in the long term, but their management will require a balanced nutritional approach.
We hope that visitors to our website who are not our patients will find much to interest them in this website; we aim to present useful, practical, considered and authoritative information on Complementary and Integrated Medicine. We strongly advise that you should not follow a restricted diet without proper medical supervision by a qualified practitioner.
