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Food Allergy Friendly Restaurants Are Needed Even More While On Vacation

"Food allergy friendly restaurants represent only about 10% of all restaurants. It's very hard to find a safe restaurant you can trust. AllerDine.com does the hard work and research to find restaurants that embrace allergic customers and are not afraid to serve them," said Aly Cohen, of AllerDine.com. "AllerDine.com is giving those with life threatening food allergies the key information and contacts they need to eat near home and while on vacation."

AllerDine.com also provides a Free Restaurant Toolkit that can be printed out from the site that will guide you through the specific steps and questions to ask the restaurant manager and chef to increase your experience eating out. Users are encouraged to also rate and review their experiences to post on the site to share with others. With the right research, those who have food allergies, gluten free needs or celiac disease can enjoy eating out safely near home, and even while on vacation. For tips on safely taking vacations with food allergies go to: http://www.allerdine.com/blog.

About www.AllerDine.com

AllerDine.com is a fact-based website with user reviews designed to get those with food allergies, gluten free needs and celiac disease out of the kitchen and dining out with the right information. Users can search over 1400 restaurants by allergen, area, cuisine and more. AllerDine.com covers many of the most popular vacation destination sites including more than 25 major cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, and many more. To be listed, each restaurant is asked a list of very specific questions on how they handle food allergies. Only restaurants contacted by the food allergic staff at AllerDine.com, and those with first-hand user experiences, are included.

More than 12 million Americans have food allergies. That's one in every 25 people. Over 3 million young children have life threatening food allergies, and it has doubled in recent years. Eight foods account for 90% of all food-allergic reactions: milk, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts (e.g., walnuts, almonds, cashews, pistachios, and pecans), wheat, soy, fish and shellfish. The rate of sesame, other legumes and sulfite allergies is also increasing rapidly. There is no cure. Food allergens can develop at any age, any time, and only a trace amount of an allergen is needed to cause a life-threatening reaction.

AllerDine.com can also be found on:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/AllerDine
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Blog: http://www.AllerDine.com/Blog

AllerDine.com
Aly Cohen, 800-429-1987 Ext: 104
AlyssaC@AllerDine.com