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Summary: Reading label ingredients is essential for preventing an allergic reaction to food. Learn about what to look for when reading ingredients with expert tips in this free health video.
Audra Hartwig is a mother who has been a long time sufferer with severe environmental allergies (asthma/dust mites). Audra also has two children who have inherited those same allergies...read more
"In order to make sure that you are having food that is safe for you, it's essential to read the ingredients on the box. For food labels, which are located on the side of a box, make sure that you read every ingredient that's located on here. And, at the bottom, it will tell you if what it contains, if it contains any of the food allergies, such as wheat, this one, for example, contains wheat ingredients in it. So it's essential that you look not just once you have a product, but every time you go to purchase that same product, to make sure that the manufacturer has not changed any of the ingredients. For example, my daughters were eating a certain type of chocolate that we thought was safe and on the ingredients it said it had vegetable oil in it. Well, the other day when I reread the ingredients on a new bag, the vegetable oil, they actually specified what types of oil were in these, this chocolate candy, and one of them was shea oil. And what shea is, it's actually a nut oil. So now we're not able to eat those candies anymore."
eHow Article: Food Allergies: Examine Label Ingredients
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