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Help needed for the identification of food products.

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sofieCBS

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Hello,

We are a group from Copenhagen Business School, studying user driven innovation, who are currently searching for concrete ideas and solutions for making it easier for allergy sufferers to do their retail food and grocery shopping, as it can be difficult and time consuming to find allergy friendly food products.

We contact you because we believe that you, as a diabetic, might experience some of the same challenges when identifying products, which can have a harmful effect.
Therefore, we would like to ask this forum if anyone has suggestions as to how life can be made easier for allergy sufferers or those who engage in the purchasing of food products for, for instance, allergic children. In other words:
“How can retail purchasing be made easier for allergy sufferers, so that they can easily identify allergy friendly and non-allergy friendly food and groceries?
If you have an idea – whether simple or more advanced – we would be very happy to hear from you.

In addition, it would be a great help if you could also inform us about the following:
Are you allergic? (Yes/No):
Are you living with an allergic? (Yes/No):
Gender:
Age:
Nationality:
Profession:
Education:

Thank you very much for your help.
 
I find clear labelling with details of ingredients to be the most useful thing. It's annoying that the UK"traffic light" food labels don't include carbohydrates.
Hana
 
Banning blue-on-white writing and white-on-blue writing and putting it all in large-size type would be hugely advantageous in terms of less strain on the eyesight and speeding up the process of checking ingredients while shopping.
DG
 
Hi. I am Diabetic and also gluten-free (un-diagnosed Celiac).

One thing that really frustrates me over here in the UK is the lack of clarity on gluten-free foods for UK consumers. Although there is a lot of choice available, the major Supermarket chains only carry very limited ranges, and those products are exorbitantly expensive.

If you are a diagnosed Celiac there are hundreds of GF food products available on prescription, but they are not easily available to purchase otherwise.

My husband also follows a gluten-free diet because it helps his Fibromyalgia, depression and brain-fog, and I do buy some gluten-free food items for him in the way of biscuits and crackers when I can find them but as I say, they are extremely expensive. I bought a box of Trufree crackers the other day - they cost £1.99 and when I opened the pack most of them were broken.

I am fortunate that I can make most things with gluten-free flour if necessary, but there are people who cannot do that and have no choice but to have to purchase these obscenely expensive items.

Although some stores have lists of their gluten-free food products, others don't. Some have a dedicated gluten-free section, others don't. Some have some of their products in a dedicated section and others dotted about all over the store which is very helpful (not!).

I have even been into stores that have placed all their gluten-free products next to the gluten-based bread, cake and biscuit sections!
 
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