Are we really wrong to blame processed food for the rise in allergies? | Joanna Blythman

Sense About Science talks about 'perceived food allergies'. But I'm not just another muesli-belt middle-class neurotic who doesn't understand science

On the bus the other day I watched a mother hand her toddler a packet of salt and vinegar crisps. The little girl obviously liked them, doubtless relishing their salty-sweet crunch, but suddenly her face reddened, her eyes watered and she began coughing and spluttering, an episode that must have lasted a good two minutes. The volatile pungency of the crisps was getting up my nose a couple of seats away, so was it any wonder that a child's immature lungs reacted like that?

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