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Top Rated

Food Allergies in Movies and Television

The Oscars are this weekend and while we love to be surprised by the Best Picture winner, getting surprised by a food allergy scene in a movie, not so much. With food allergies increasingly making guest appearances in movies, TV, and other media, we’re fans of getting a sneak preview, which is why we’ve created the largest resource of 42 movies and TV shows that feature food allergies so you can check before you hit play. Our Food Allergy Movie + TV Guide details which character has the allergy, what they’re allergic to and whether or not there’s a reaction, plus a brief description of the scene. If you have a movie or TV show we can add, please share it here to help us grow this resource!

Movies | TV Shows

Allergy-Friendly Toronto Guide

Canada’s largest city is a safe haven for food allergies and a perfect place to visit with a vibrant art scene including legal graffiti, over 1,500 parks, and an eclectic vibe that provides both an urban and a small town feel. Our Top Rated Toronto Guide features the Spokin community’s favorite finds from gluten-free chicken and waffles to vegan restaurants serving the multicultural cuisines Toronto is known for. See the 10 best places to get your sugar fix reviewed on the Spokin app, including 5 bakeries dedicated free of a range of allergens—gluten, nuts, and more.

EAT | TREAT | STAY

Allergy-Friendly Hotels In Mexico

29 allergy-friendly hotels in Mexico where you can truly relax on your vacation! From all-inclusive resorts to hotels with safe restaurants, beachside delivery, and room service, our Top Rated Mexico Hotel Guide is your ticket to paradise whether you’re going on Spring Break, planning holiday travel, or just dreaming of a getaway. Enjoy 5 star hospitality at hotels that capture allergens at booking and check-in so staff are aware and ready at every meal, stock their rooms with allergy-friendly snacks, and even prepare custom desserts.

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Product Guides

Sesame List

A shocking number of food companies and restaurant chains have added sesame to their breads, buns, and bagels to, we believe, avoid the effort and expense of the FASTER Act’s cleaning requirements. As the sesame allergy community scrambles to place safe bread on their tables, Spokin has reached out to over 130 brands to confirm their sesame details, including information on facilities, lines, ingredient and label changes, and more.

We’ve created the Spokin Sesame List as a resource for the sesame allergy community. Categorization is based on responses we’ve received directly from each manufacturer. We will continue to update this list as we receive confirmed information. This list was published on 1/9/2023 and was last updated on 1/24/2023.

Gingerbread House Decorating Event Scrapbook

The first ever Top 9 Allergy-Friendly and Gluten-Free Gingerbread House Decorating Event was a holiday wish come true! See the highlights in our photo scrapbook, from the endless piles of candy to the gingerbread house masterpieces created by the Spokin community.

32 Allergy-Friendly Cinnamon Rolls

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Warm, gooey cinnamon rolls to kick off the holiday season! Our Allergy-Friendly Cinnamon Roll Guide serves up 32 rolls for however you roll, whether you’re heating them up, baking them in the oven, or ordering directly from a Spokin Verified Bakery that ships nationwide. Take making them from scratch off of your to do list and leave more time to enjoy a roll (or 2)! See gluten-free, nut-free, dairy-free, egg-free, and soy-free options, including 3 from Spokin Verified Bakeries Erin McKenna’s Bakery, The Difference Bakery, and A&J Bakery, and 7 made in dedicated facilities. This guide was published on 12/2/2022. To learn more about our product guide process, see our Letter From Our Founder.

Travel

Scottsdale Allergy-Friendly Travel Guide

Is it just us or is everybody in need of a warm, sunny vacation? Whether you still need a Spring Break plan or you’re already planning your next trip, Scottsdale should be at the top of your list as one of the most allergy-friendly destinations. Our guide is your roadmap to the best allergy-friendly restaurants, bakeries, ice cream shops, and hotels in Scottsdale (and nearby), including a big top 9 allergen-free shoutout to Spokin Verified Intentional Foods!

EAT | TREAT | STAY

Toronto Local Guide: Amanda Orlando

Spend 5 perfect days in Toronto through the eyes of a local: Amanda Orlando, founder of the food allergy wellness event Free To Be Me, food allergy blogger, and cookbook author! Not only is Canada’s largest city a safe haven for food allergies, it’s also a perfect place to visit with a vibrant art scene including legal graffiti, over 1,500 parks, and an eclectic vibe, providing both an urban and a small town feel. It’s also surprisingly close to the States—only a 1 hour flight from JFK.

Amanda’s done all the planning for you, sharing the best safe eats for peanut, tree nut, milk, soy, and legume allergies and her best picks to visit. See her guide and tune in as she takes over the Spokin Instagram on Thursday, March 2, to hear why she loves Toronto! Find Amanda on Spokin @amandaorlando to see her 53 reviews in Toronto.

Allergy-Friendly Toronto Guide

Canada’s largest city is a safe haven for food allergies and a perfect place to visit with a vibrant art scene including legal graffiti, over 1,500 parks, and an eclectic vibe that provides both an urban and a small town feel. Our Top Rated Toronto Guide features the Spokin community’s favorite finds from gluten-free chicken and waffles to vegan restaurants serving the multicultural cuisines Toronto is known for. See the 10 best places to get your sugar fix reviewed on the Spokin app, including 5 bakeries dedicated free of a range of allergens—gluten, nuts, and more.

EAT | TREAT | STAY

Meet The Maker

Meet the Maker: Chaia

Chaia holds a special place in our hearts as the first restaurant to join the Spokin Verified Restaurant program. We’re excited to share the story behind this allergy mom co-owned and female-founded restaurant dedicated free of peanuts, tree nuts, gluten, and more. To celebrate joining the Spokin family, Chaia is giving away FREE tacos! Join the biggest Taco Tuesday ever by using code SPOKIN at any of their 3 locations in Washington, D.C. and Maryland. This code is good for up to 1 year—perfect for that 2023 D.C. trip! Can also be used for delivery. Limit one use per person.

Meet the Maker: Ghostfish Brewing Company

Requests for alcohol allergen details are bubbling up at Spokin and we are saying cheers to our FIRST Verified Alcohol Brand, Ghostfish Brewing Company! Ghostfish is one of the largest dedicated gluten-free breweries in the U.S. and their Seattle brewing facility also boasts the Ghostfish Taproom, a bucket list-worthy restaurant that’s 100% dedicated gluten-free and allergy-friendly. Ghostfish’s craft beer is sold in 18 states and 2 Canadian provinces. Sports fans can also find it at some of the leading baseball and football stadiums. Learn more from Co-Founder Brian Thiel and tune in for Brian’s Insta Live today 10/7 at 12pm CT.

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Meet the Maker: Better Bites Bakery

Better Bites Bakery chocolate covered cookie dough bites are one of the highest rated products on the Spokin app. Leah Lopez is the allergy mom and genius behind these top 9 free cookie dough bites, cake bites, cupcakes, and cakes that taste so good, they’re making classrooms and party guests jealous of the “safe” treat. Her refusal to have her son feel left out of celebrations drove her into the kitchen and ultimately landed her products on Whole Foods shelves nationwide. Leah and her team want everyone to have safe treats and are giving 500 winners FREE Better Bites! Tune in to our Insta Live with Leah at 12 PM CT/1 PM ET.

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Wisdom

Allergen Component Testing: Alyssa’s Story

Alyssa Bauder scheduled what she thought was a routine appointment with an allergist but received news that changed her life. While she still had a life-threatening allergy to peanuts, she no longer was allergic to tree nuts, fish, shellfish, or chickpeas—news that seemed almost too good to be true. Learn how she tackled 13 food challenges and worked with her therapist to manage food allergy-related anxiety with a strategy that led to wins like her first Starbucks at 24 years old and a lot of fun along the way.

Alyssa is thankful for the freedom she’s gained and is glad to still be a part of the food allergy community, one that she’s passionate about and plans to continue advocating for through both her platform and career.

Disney World With Food Allergies

Food allergy mom Rachel McFall dreamed of taking her family to Disney World. With the help of travel advisor Taylor Gordon, who not only specializes in food allergy travel but also manages her own allergies, Rachel’s family managed to eat every meal out, enjoying character breakfasts, Mickey Mouse ice cream bars, and a visit to Erin McKenna’s Bakery. See her 527 reviews on the Spokin app @allergene, including 14 from her trip!

Join our Insta Live with Rachel to hear how her family dined out safely with peanut, egg, and wheat allergies, and how Taylor “did it all”, planning every detail of their fairytale vacation. Tune in Wednesday, 5/18 at 12 PM CT/1 PM ET for the Insta Live and enter to win a Disney World trip of your own!

The End of Food Allergy with Dr. Kari Nadeau

The End of Food Allergy is a landmark book on preventing, diagnosing, and reversing food allergies with key findings from a premier team of trained experts.

The trailblazing research of Dr. Kari Nadeau at Stanford University reveals that food allergy can be a treatable condition, because the immune system can be retrained. Food allergies can be disrupted, slowed, and stopped. The key is a strategy called immunotherapy (IT)–the controlled, gradual reintroduction of an allergen into the body. With innovations that include state-of-the-art therapies targeting specific components of the immune system, Dr. Nadeau and her team have increased the speed and effectiveness of this treatment to a matter of months.

Food allergy families will find fascinating information on the causes of food allergies, the science behind different types of food allergy testing and learn details on immunotherapy. The End of Food Allergy is a must-read for anyone interested in the science behind food allergies and the latest research that is changing the future of allergies.

Holidays

Allergy-Friendly Holiday Cookie Recipes

We’re almost OOO (AKA 🍪🍪🍪) with 4 nights to Christmas and nothing but holiday cookies on our minds! Our annual Allergy-Friendly Holiday Cookie Recipe Guide features 66 of our newest finds, with every recipe being free of at least 1 of the top 9 allergens. Find a safe cookie for your holiday plans with our infographic or go to the Spokin app where we’ve already filtered them for your allergens!

Editorial note: For more allergy-friendly holiday cookie recipes, see our 2021, 2020 + 2016 guides!

10 Best Restaurants to get Allergy-Friendly Latkes

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah or you’re just looking for a reason to eat fried potatoes, our Allergy-Friendly Latke Restaurant Guide features 10 of the best places to safely enjoy this Hanukkah hero. See reviews highlighting gluten-free latkes, latke tots, and delis serve latkes year-round. If you’ve found safe latkes, please share a restaurant review on the Spokin app! This guide was published on 12/15/2022.

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Recipes: Latkes

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Golden, salty, crispy latkes are the center of a Hanukkah celebration. See some of our favorite recipes including options that swap out traditional ingredients of egg and flour for egg-free and gluten-free variations.

Resources

Allergy-Friendly Cocktail Guide

Surprisingly, one of the most common questions we get at Spokin actually has nothing to do with food. In honor of National Cocktail Day, we asked Spokin Ambassadors and friends (all 21 and older) how they safely drink alcohol. Our guide shares their usual, tips on how they order, what they always avoid, and even places they’ve safely had drinks.