Safe food. Still worth eating.

No, and nothing else can either — not an app, not a recipe, not a brand you've trusted for years. Manufacturers reformulate without announcing it, and a product that was fine last month can change between one shop and the next. That instruction is written into the prompts themselves, not just stated here: every answer ends with you checking the ingredient label yourself. What this teaches is the skill of reading that label properly, which is the part that actually transfers.

They're different conditions needing different levels of rigour, and mixing them up causes problems in both directions — unnecessary restriction on one side, underestimated risk on the other. An allergy is an immune reaction that can be severe and immediate; coeliac disease is autoimmune damage from gluten; an intolerance is a digestive response that's unpleasant rather than dangerous. If you're not sure which you have, getting that established with a doctor changes everything downstream.

Less than people assume. Precautionary labelling is usually voluntary rather than legally required, it isn't graded by risk level, and its absence doesn't guarantee anything either. Whether to accept those products is a decision for you together with whoever manages your allergy — it isn't a rule anyone can hand you, and any source that gives you a confident blanket answer is overreaching.

Not at home, and this matters more than anything else on this page. Reintroducing a food after an allergy is done as a supervised challenge in a medical setting with staff and equipment on hand, precisely because reactions can be sudden and severe. Some children do outgrow certain allergies, and finding out is a conversation with an allergist rather than an experiment at the kitchen table.

It can be, and it's worth taking seriously rather than assuming it'll balance out. Multiple exclusions in a growing child can create gaps that take a long time to show up, which is exactly why a paediatric dietitian is worth asking for — it's a routine referral, not an escalation. The meal planning here works alongside that; it doesn't substitute for someone checking that nothing important is missing.