Beyond labelling: what strategies do nut allergic individuals employ to make food choices? A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food labelling is an important tool that assists people with peanut and tree nut allergies to avoid allergens. Nonetheless, other strategies are also developed and used in food choice decision making. In this paper, we examined the strategies that nut allergic individuals deploy to make safe food choices in addition to a reliance on food labelling.

Methods

THREE QUALITATIVE METHODS: an accompanied shop, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and the product choice reasoning task - were used with 32 patients that had a clinical history of reactions to peanuts and/or tree nuts consistent with IgE-mediated food allergy. Thematic analysis was applied to the transcribed data.

Results

Three main strategies were identified that informed the risk assessments and food

SUBMITTER: Barnett J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3558473 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature