Matthew's Foods: Our "Safes" and "Triggers"

FPIES families refer to "safes", meaning foods their children can eat without causing any digestive upset/symptoms or a chronic or acute reaction. Food that cause a reaction are commonly called "triggers".

Our FPIES Triggers (acute reactions)

• rice (and therefore avoiding oats)
• beef

Our Safes (an asterisk denotes new items when trialing more than one ingredient at a time)

• avocado
• pear (Bartlett, Anjou)
• apple (Gala)
• peanut
• sweet potato
• butternut squash
• prunes
• broccoli
• carrots
• corn, citric acid
• apricots
• pork
• banana
• coconut 
• quinoa
• lamb
• potato (Yukon Gold, Cheecha Puffs)
• egg
• wheat 
• dairy
• D'Italiano white bread (enriched wheat flour, water, yeast*, sugar/glucose-fructose*, potato flour, salt, soybean* and/or canola* oil, wheat gluten, calcium propionate*, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides*, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate*, vegetable monoglycerides*. May contain sorbic acid*)
• Dempsters Whole Wheat bread (whole grain whole wheat flour including the germ, water, glucose-fructose/sugar, yeast*, vegetable oil (canola or soybean), wheat gluten, salt, vinegar, vegetable monoglycerides, calcium propionate, acetylated tartaric acid esters of mono and diglycerides, sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, sorbic acid, soybean lecithin) 
• calcium chloride (trialed in canned tomatoes and PC Organics Mozzarella cheese)
• herbs/spices: basil, thyme, rosemary, oregano, coriander, pepper, salt, dill, nutmeg
• tomato
• olive oil (Bertolli 100% extra virgin olive oil, mild taste)
• palm oil (trialed using Bamba)
• chicken
• hummus (Fontaine sante brand, contains chickpeas*, water, tahini* (sesame butter), canola oil, lemon juice concentrate*, sea salt, vinegar*, garlic juice (garlic juice, salt).)
• soy
• kidney and pinto beans
• brown sugar
• strawberries
• salmon
• zucchini
• turkey
• cherries
• blackberries
• blueberries
• Philadelphia cream cheese (salt, bacterial culture, lactic acid, carob bean gum, potassium sorbate, may contain sorbic acid)
• lentils
• red/orange peppers
• lime
• raspberries
• peas
• celery
• haddock
• halibut
• cantaloupe
• turnip
• pineapple
• mango
• clementines
• cod
• honey
• almond
• cucumber
• watermelon
• green beans
• spinach
• kiwi
• honeydew
• grapes

* I've stopped updating this page, as our doctor recommended that we stop trials and simply feed normally - not as easy as you might expect!