Thanks, I'm allergic to it. No Thanks, I'm allergic to it.
Surveys show that about one-third of all adults believe they have food allergies.
But true food allergies occur in 0.3 to 7 percent of children, and those often are outgrown within the first years of life. Only about three percent of adults have food allergies. According to the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology a food allergy is a reaction of your immune system to eating a food. On the other hand, food intolerances are more common and may have some of the same symptoms as food allergies. Because with a true food allergy you completely avoid a food.