I have never heard of milk coating on apples.  Is that only in the US or
Canada too?  My son eats an apple in his school lunch five days a week and I
am not aware of any issues.  I do wash the apple but I don't scrub it.

Somehow I see vegans getting up in arms about a milk coating, not to mention
milk allergic people.

Is it possibly you have oral allergy syndrome?

Vegan cuisine, from what I have seen and feel free to correct me, is often
heavy in soy as soy is seen as a substitute for meat, eggs and milk.
Problem is, too much soy can also be a bad thing for the non allergic person
too.

As for the fried fish, if other items that were covered in a batter that did
have milk in it were fried in the same oil as your "safe" fish, then that
oil could easily become cross contaminated.  I believe that it what happened
to my son once.  We were at a Chinese buffet and he was happily eating
fries.  There was delay (usually he reacts once away to dairy) of about a
half hour or so, but all of a sudden, he started to cough and he needed his
puffer (usually milk causes hives).  I suspected that the onion rings,
chicken balls, etc. might have milk in their batter and were probably all
fried in the same big vat.  No more Chinese buffets for us.

Good luck.



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Selena Gi <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Recently, I've been getting sick from apples. I remember vaguely hearing
> something on the radio about a new environmentally-sound treatment for
> apples out there that coats them in milk as some sort of pesticide or
> preservative. Has this gone national now? Or was it just an experimental
> thing? I can't remember exactly what they said. Has anyone else out there
> had a similar experience?
>
> On the other hand, I have lots of allergies so I can't be sure what's going
> on there? That convention story made me laugh. I have the sense that eating
> out in general is a terrible idea. I have had the opposite happen, instead
> of being served something totally plain people keep trying to convince me
> that something is safe and good for the environment. Suddenly I'm allergic
> to newsprint (environmentally friendly soy-ink), the yoga mat
> (environmentally friendly latex), vegan gravy and vegan pastries are both
> dairy free (but unfortunately have a lot of soy protein which I am highly
> allergic to) or fried fish from a restaurant with allergen disclosures on
> the menu (I don't know what made me sick in that one?).
>
> -Selena
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