Milk Allergy Diet
General guidelines for milk allergy
The key to an allergy-free diet is to avoid foods or products containing the food to which you are allergic. The items that you are allergic to are called allergens. A milk allergy is an abnormal response of the body to the proteins found in cow's milk. Milk allergy is most common among infants and young children. Milk and milk products are found in many foods. Obvious forms of milk are cream, cheese, butter, ice cream, and yogurt. Milk and milk products may also be hidden sources in commonly eaten foods. In order to avoid foods that contain milk products, it is necessary to read food labels.
Important information about avoiding milk and milk products
- The word nondairy on a product label indicates it does not contain butter, cream, or milk. However, this does not necessarily indicate it does not have other milk-containing ingredients.
- The Kosher food labeled pareve or parve almost always indicates food is free of milk and milk products. A D on a product label next to the circled K or U indicates the presence of milk protein. These products should be avoided.
- Processed meats, including hot dogs, sausages, and luncheon meats, frequently contain milk or are processed on milk-containing lines. Carefully read all food labels.
|
Foods |
Allowed |
Not allowed |
|---|---|---|
| Beverages | Carbonated beverages
Coffee Tea Soy substitute-milk formulas, water Fruit drinks |
All milks (whole, low-fat, skim, buttermilk, evaporated, condensed, powdered, hot cocoa)
Yogurt, eggnog, milkshakes, malts All beverages made with milk or milk products |
| Breads | Milk-free breads
French bread Wheat, white, rye, corn, graham, gluten, and soy breads made without milk or milk products Graham cracker or rice wafers |
Wheat, white, or rye breads
Biscuits, donuts, muffins, pancakes, waffles, zwieback, crackers, saltines, rusk Most commercially prepared breads and rolls contain milk or milk products French toast made with milk |
| Cereals | Any cereal to which no milk or milk products have been added | High-protein cereals
Prepared and precooked cereals with milk solids, casein, or other milk products added |
| Desserts | Meringue, gelatin, popsicles, fruit ice, fruit whip, angel food cake
Cakes, cookies, and pie crusts made without milk or milk products |
Cake, cookies, custard, pudding, cream desserts, or sherbet containing milk products
Ice cream, cream pie Pastries brushed with milk, junket, popover |
| Eggs | All prepared without milk | Scrambled with milk, creamed eggs, egg substitutes |
| Fats | Vegetable oil, meat fat, lard, bacon, shortening, milk free gravy
Peanut butter (made without milk solids) Margarine without milk solids Kosher margarine |
Butter, cream, margarine
Salad dressing or mayonnaise containing milk, milk solids, or milk products Some butter substitutes and nondairy creamers |
| Fruits | All fresh, frozen, or canned fruits and juices | Any served with milk, butter, or cream |
| Meats, fish, poultry, and cheese | Baked, broiled, boiled, roasted or fried: beef, veal, pork, chicken, turkey, lamb, fish, organ meats, or tofu (prepared without milk or milk products)
Sausage, deli/luncheon meats, or ham if made without milk products Note: A small number of persons with cow's milk allergy may develop a reaction to beef. Thus, those with cow's milk allergy should be careful when consuming beef or foods containing beef. |
All cheese, cottage cheese, cream cheese
Some sausage products, bologna, frankfurters Breaded meats, meatloaf, croquettes, casseroles, hamburgers (unless made without milk) Commercial entrees made with milk or milk solids |
| Potatoes and substitutes | Macaroni, noodles, spaghetti, rice
White or sweet potatoes prepared without milk, butter, cream, or allowed margarine |
Au gratin, buttered, creamed, scalloped potato or substitutes
Macaroni and cheese Mashed potatoes containing milk or butter Frozen french fries sprayed with lactose |
| Soups | Bouillon, broth, consommé or soups with broth base plain or with all allowed foods | Bisques, chowders, creamed soups
All soups made with milk or milk products |
| Sweets | Corn syrup, honey, jam, jelly
Hard candy, candy made without milk or milk products Granulated, brown or powdered sugar |
Candy made with milk such as chocolate, fudge, caramels, nougat |
| Vegetables | All fresh, frozen, or canned vegetables without milk or milk products added
All vegetable juices |
Au gratin, buttered, creamed, or escalloped vegetables
Batter and dipped vegetables Vegetable soufflés |
| Miscellaneous | Catsup, olives, pickles, nuts, herbs, chili powder, salt, spices, condiments
Any foods that are milk-, cheese-, or butter-free, or that do not contain powdered milk or whey |
All items containing milk, cheese, butter, whey casein, caseinates, hydrolysates, lactose, lactalbumin, lactoglobulin or milk solids, artificial butter flavor Nondairy substitutes containing caseinate |
How to read a label for a milk-free diet
Be sure to avoid foods that contain any of the following ingredients:
- Artificial butter flavor
- Butter, butter fat, butter oil
- Casein, casein hydrolysates
- Caseinates (ammonium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium)
- Cheese, cottage cheese, curds
- Cream
- Custard, pudding
- Ghee
- Half and Half
- Hydrolysates (casein, milk protein, protein, whey, whey protein)
- Lactalbumin, lactalbumin phosphate
- Lactoglobulin, lactoferrin
- Lactose, lactulose
- Milk (derivative, protein, solids, malted, condensed, evaporated, dry, whole, low-fat, nonfat, skim, goat's milk and milk from other animals, milkfat, powder)
- Nisin
- Nougat
- Recaldent
- Rennet casein
- Sour cream
- Sour cream solids
- Sour milk solids
- Whey (delactosed, deminderalixed, protein concentrate)
- Yogurt
Other possible sources of milk or milk products:
- Brown sugar flavoring
- Caramel flavoring
- Chocolate
- Flavorings (natural and artificial)
- High protein flour
- Lactose
- Luncheon meats, hot dogs, sausages
- Margarine
- Simplesse
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