Egg Free
DC-101
Section 1: Allergy & Intolerances
Compendium Definition
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Note: xxxx
Caution: xxxx
Vegetables
Allowed
- all pure vegetables and their juices
NOT allowed:
- vegetable dishes containing egg
Fruit
Allowed
- all pure fruits and their juices
NOT allowed:
- Orange Julius ® or orange juice fruit beverages
Salads
Allowed
- all salads without egg or egg containing ingredients (i.e. salad dressing)
NOT allowed:
- salads containing egg
- salad dressings containing egg *see list of other names for eggs
Grain Products
Allowed
- bread, buns, baked goods made without egg
- French / Italian bread
- egg-free baking mixes
- egg-free pasta
- plain cooked grains
- plain oatmeal
- ready to eat cereals made without egg
- regular Cream of Wheat
- soda crackers
NOT allowed:
- baking mixes containing egg
- cakes, bread, baked products with egg glaze
- commercial or homemade baked goods made with egg (cakes, muffins, pancakes, waffles)
- quick breads
- commercial pasta (spaghetti, macaroni, egg noodles, etc.)
- instant Cream of Wheat
- instant and flavoured oatmeal
Milk & Alternatives
Allowed
- all egg free milk and alternatives
NOT allowed:
- eggnog
Meat & Alternatives
Allowed
- all pure vegetables and their juices
NOT allowed:
- vegetable dishes containing egg
Soups
Allowed
- all made without egg
NOT allowed:
- consommé and bouillon cleared with egg white
Oils & Fats
(limit fat intake to 2-3 tbsp per day)
Allowed
- butter, cream, sour cream
- gravy
- lard
- margarine
- meat drippings
- pure vegetable oils
- vegetable shortening
NOT allowed:
- real mayonnaise
- traditional Caesar salad dressing
- tartar sauce
- hollandaise sauce
- bearnaise sauce
- Newburg sauce
- any sauces or salad dressings containing egg
Desserts & Sweets
Allowed
- all made without egg
NOT allowed:
- consommé and bouillon cleared with egg white
Meat & Alternatives
Allowed
- all desserts and sweets made without egg
NOT allowed:
- meringue, mousse, soufflé
- fruit whips
- confectionaries made with egg
(fondants, marshmallows, nougat, pavlova) - ice cream containing eggs
- custard, cream pies, puddings and
some gelatin - cakes, cookies and muffins made with egg (some mixes for these also contain egg)
- pie crusts made with egg
Fluids
Allowed
- fruit juice and drinks
- tea, herbal tea, coffee
- carbonated drinks except root beer
NOT allowed:
- root beer
- chocolate drinks (check label)
- wine
- Ovaltine®
*Other names for eggs
- Albumin/Albumen
- Conalbumin
- Egg substitutes such as Egg Beaters™
- Eggnog
- Globulin
- Livetin
- Lysozyme
- Meringue
- Ovalbumin Ovoglobulin
- Ovolactohydrolyze proteins
- Ovomacroglobulin
- Ovomucin, ovomucoid
- Ovotransferrin
- Ovovitellin
- Silico-albuminate
- Simplesse® (fat replacer)
- Vitellin
References:
Dietitians of Canada – Practice Based Evidence in Nutrition, 2012 (PEN)