GrowHappy’s ImmunoNutrition Squad members targeted 5 essential allergens for you to get started with asap; these represent some of the most common allergens, and many of them can become life-long allergies too, so let’s get proactive Early & Often™! GrowHappy’s ImmunoNutrition Variety Box has all the snacks you need for a month to teach the immune system through the early years.
Inside the GrowHappy Allergen ImmunoButter Variety Box:
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Peanut
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Egg
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Cashew
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Walnut
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Sesame
What about milk?
Please also feed milk proteins to your child! One great way is by feeding plain, unsweetened yogurt, full of gut friendly microbes with our Allergen ImmunoButters™! - a nice way to add flavor to often sour yogurt without needing sugar. We purposely left out milk in our product range because we want to encourage your baby to eat this food fresh and full of microbes with our range of ImmunoButters. Please, aim to achieve a couple of servings of yogurt every week.
Other tree nuts
Did you know that cashew & pistachio and also walnut & pecan, respectively, have related protein structures? Studies show that eating cashew can protect you from developing a pistachio allergy and eating walnut can do the same for pecan, and to a lesser degree even Hazelnut, which is why we left pistachio and pecan out of our range for now. That said, feel free to feed pistachio and pecan too because your child might enjoy them. Eventually you can explore other tree nuts that are less common for food allergies, like almond and hazelnut too.
Shellfish and Fin Fish
Keep going in your food adventure by feeding shellfish and fin fish. Sardines, wild caught Alaskan salmon, arctic char and steelhead trout are options low in mercury. Cook thoroughly and remove bones. Try one of our Allergen ImmunoButters™, especially the egg containing butter, with salmon and sweet potato.
Wheat
Spread our Allergen ImmunoButters™ on wheat-based bread! Wheat is a top 9 allergen, although much less common than the other top allergens.
Soy
Like wheat, soy is a well-recognized allergen, but is much less common than other top allergens. You may wish to feed soy by serving our Allergen ImmunoButters™ with boiled and mashed soybeans or tofu together with some mashed sweet potato or carrot.
By the time you are ready to celebrate your child's first birthday, we hope you have woven in all these wonderful foods into your child’s diet regularly. The 9 top allergens make up about 90% of food allergies. Have fun eating: egg, milk, peanut, tree nuts (e.g., cashew, walnut, pistachio, pecan, hazelnut, almond), sesame, fin fish, shellfish, wheat and soy!
Infants often refuse new foods and it may take 8-10 tries before the infant will accept the taste, so keep trying!
