Food Allergy Has High Tech Help

People dealing with food allergies can get a little help from the web. Check out these high tech resources:

Allergic To It is a site for people to share with one another. Anyone can go on the site and enter their favorite food allergy safe foods. The entire community can then vote on foods, giving products a "Confidence Counter", which translates into how confident you can be in that product.
My Food Facts is an iPhone app that allows you to scan the bar code of any food item to find out if you may be allergic to it. Sure beats squinting at labels in a poorly lit grocery store!

Eating out with food allergies can be fraught with confusion and fear. Check out these two sites before you make a reservation:
Allerdine is a food allergy restaurant guide giving information about the food allergy friendliness of various restaurants. Set up a free profile to share your experiences and to receive e-mail offers from restaurants and their partners.
Allergyeats has over 600,000 restaurants in its database. Based on peer rating and feedback, AllergyEats help food allergic diners make informed choices about where to eat out. The site is currently offering a gift card contest. Check out their Facebook page to learn how you can win.

4 comments:

Mark P said...

Thanks for the links! As I have a number of friends and relatives with food allergies, I started AllAboutFoods, a website that shows the food allergy content for the menus of many popular restaurants and the same for the grocery store products from many food manufacturers. I hope you and your readers find it helpful!

Parallel Life said...

Good links...I've never seen allerdine before.

Anonymous said...

thanks for this info. I've just found your blog after recently finding out my son is suffering from multiple food allergies.
Great links--now I just need to get my hands on an iphone!

Kris Shaw said...

Great blog.Thanks for sharing this informative blog and tips related allergies.Now a days this problem is growing on a large scale but you have shared a lot of tips from which we can cure this.

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