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P.
SERGEANT, G. KANNY, D.A. MONERET-VAUTRIN
Service de Médecine D
Médecine interne - Immunologie Clinique et Allergologie
Hôpital Central
29, Av. de Lattre de Tassigny
54035 NANCY Cedex - France |
 ALIM'INTER
Vol 2 - n° 5
mars 1997 |
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In
food, sesame is found in various forms :
- whole
or peeled seeds, oil
- Halvah
paste – a kind of almond like paste, sewing
as a cooking salted or sweet base in use in cooking in
Far East, Thailand, Pakistan, Japan, India, Middle East
and Northern Africa
- Tahin
- Oilcake
: solid residues obtained while treating sesame
seeds in order to get oil by extraction – used as
animal feeding
To
suppress any product including one of the following mentions
:
sesame, sesame seeds, sesame oil
before buying or eating a product, carefully check up its composition
The list of the components may vary from one pack to the other according
to the manufacturer’s pleasure
FOOD
TO BE SUPPRESSED IN THE DIET
- All
kinds of breads, rusks, toasted bread, small toasted bread
with cereals
- Bread
used to make hamburgers
- Special
breads,
be also careful about the possible contamination by sesame
seeds of other kinds of bread such as sticks of French breadAperitif
biscuits : check up their composition
- Biscuits,
including those sold in health-food departments or stores
: check
up their composition
- Cereals
bars : check up their composition
- Oriental
kind pasty
Nuts, husked and sold in packs
- Some
tomato sauces produced insdustrially
Not
take one’s meals in :
- Fast foods
- Mac Donald’s, Quick, Burger King, ...
- « Exotic » restaurants
: Chinese, North African, Thailandese, Libanese, Japanese,
Pakistanese, etc … : the risk of finding sesame oil
(on shrimps, for instance) and of sesame contamined elements
is very important.
- Because
of very frequent reactions with other kinds of seeds, an
allergist’s
advice is greatly wished for.
- Sesame
is one of the allergens the declaration of which is required
on the labels in the next directive of the European Union on
labelling (meeting in May 2003).
Be
careful while manipulating animal feeding.
Some
medicines and cosmetics products may contain sesame oil. It is
therefore required that your physician or your pharmacist check
up the composition before delivering any of them.
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