But if you can't do that anymore due to your child's
Surprise ingredient lists from your favorites:
Chick fil a Chicken Nuggets:
100% natural whole breast filet, seasoning (salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, spices, paprika), seasoned coater (enriched bleached flour [bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, nonfat milk, leavening [baking soda, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate], spice, soybean oil, color [paprika]), milk wash (water, egg, nonfat milk), peanut oil (fully refined peanut oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness and Dimethylpolysiloxane an anti-foaming agent added).
That's right folks... our beloved "healthy" chicken nuggets... have milk... and ANTI-FOAMING AGENT!
Tell me, WHAT FOAMS ABOUT A CHICKEN?! If my chicken is foaming... I don't want to eat it. You just leave that foaming chicken alone and let it peck itself to death... bleck!
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McDonald's French Fries:
Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*, citric acid [preservative], dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), and salt. Prepared in vegetable oil (canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
*(Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients).
And antifoaming potatoes now?! Again... I'm scared enough of the foaming chickens... now my potatoes are foaming?! Back at my house, we throw away potatoes when they foam...we don't fry them.
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Ok so those were the two most startling finds. But, I will share with you my lists of crap that I learned or surprised me. This would have been nice to have handy when we first learned this about my son.
Things I've learned:
- Most of the buns in fast food restaurants are fine. Milk doesn't help them last longer so they don't put it in there. Although, Sonic you have to check at each one you go to because they buy their buns local and the ingredients could change.
- KFC Original Recipe has milk, Extra Crispy does not.
- Sonic Popcorn Chicken and Breaded Chicken Breasts do not have milk, but Breaded Chicken Strips do.
- Burger King Original Breaded Chicken Patty (and the dairy is in the patty... not the breading)
- BK Tendercrisp Chicken Sandwich (dairy is at least in the breading here)
- BK Onion Rings (maybe they should... I just wasn't expecting it)
- Almost everything at Chick Fil A (aside from the grilled chicken sandwich, hashbrowns, and fries)
- Wendy's Chicken Nuggets
- Back Yard Burger Hawaiian Chicken Sandwich (because of the lemon pepper chicken breast)
Things that don't contain milk that surprised me:
- BK Chicken Fries
- BK Chicken Tenders
- BK Dutch Apple Pie
- BK Soft Serve Cone (It is ice cream for crying out loud!)
- McDonald's Hot Apple Pie
- McDonaldland Cookies
- Taco Bell Cinnamon Twists
- Anything on the Taco Bell Fresco Menu
- Sonic Onion Rings
I will say, this list is compiled from my own research into the milk allergy on each individual sites allergen information as of today. Ingredients change from time to time, so if this is an issue for you, double check before you eat any of it.
While on my my allergy kick, my son's dairy allergy presented itself as chronic ear infections. We were treating him with Zyrtec for his runny nose and it wasn't helping much at all. After we got tubes and were still having ear infections, we tried the no dairy thing. And I have to say... you HAVE to do it for the full 3 weeks before you notice any difference. Then all of the sudden, you've gone 4 days without a runny nose. And now we are on 2 or 3 weeks now with no runny nose and 6 weeks or so without an ear infection. Also, it has been about 2 or 3 weeks since I've had to put thick creme on his legs for his eczema. It is basically gone now. All because of milk. It is worth the effort to try.
When trying, look out for "casein" and "whey". These are both milk ingredients. Depending on the severity of the allergy it may not be a big deal. I avoided everything for the first 3 weeks, which was hard, but the only way I could know for sure.
His almond allergy presented itself as violent vomiting after having a cup of almond milk. But once he was done throwing up (45 minutes later) he was fine and back to his jolly self. A few days later, he had some Honey Nut Cheerios, which contain almond, and had violent diarrhea for a few hours. Then it cleared up. No rash, no itchy, no redness, ... just vomiting and diarrhea (which makes you think virus... not allergy).
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