263Appendix A
Food Families
This appendix gives a list of food families and also foods without
commonly eaten relatives. Use this as a guide in making up your own
rotation diet.
There is a great deal of cross-reacting between different members
of a food family. However, this does not mean that if you are allergic to
one food all other members of that same family need be condemned.
For example, it is possible to be violently allergic to potato but OK with
tomato. This does mean, however, that you should be more suspicious of
related foods.
Note that ham and bacon belong with pork, dairy produce
with beef, and eggs with chicken. Once again, though, it doesn’t follow
automatically that you will be allergic to all products from a certain animal.
It is possible to be very allergic to milk and dairy produce and yet be
(reasonably) safe with beef.
Study the table carefully; it will repay your effort.
THE PLANT KINGDOM
Apple family: apple, pear, quince, medlar (crabapple)
Avocado family: avocado, cinnamon, sassafras
Banana family: banana, arrowroot, plantain
Beechnut family: beechnut, chestnut, black pepper
Blueberry family: blueberry (various names), cranberry, wintergreen
Buckwheat family: buckwheat, rhubarb
Carrot family: carrot, celery, parsnip, parsley, dill, fennel, anise, caraway,
cumin, coriander
Cashew family: cashew, pistachio, mango, chicle (principle ingredient of
chewing gum)
Chinese artichoke
Citrus family: orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, tangerine, citron, kumquat,
clementine (a small, sweet variety of tangerine with orange-red skin),
ugli (a large, sweet variety of tangelo)
Coffee
Cola family: chocolate, cola, karaya gum (used as a thickening agent in
cosmetics and foodstuffs)