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Incorrect
Nutrition Labeling
Inspire Potato Wedges
Sainsbury’s Fresh Counter
These potato wedges have incorrect protein figures on the
pack. The wedges are labeled as 0.3g protein per half of the pack. The correct
figure is 6.9g protein per half pack.
The company has been alerted to this error and the
information will be changed but please be aware that old stock will still
display this incorrect protein value.
Eleanor Weetch
Update on
ACBS approval
Click here for the November 2007 ACBS
update
Click here to obtain
the free software needed to read this file.
Cow and Gate Baby Food
Baby Balance Range
This new range of
baby food cereals has been launched this week and the cereals contain milk
powder. Many of the new range have the same names as the old range
eg Sunshine Banana Cereal. The protein has
increased from 2.6g/100g to 14.1g/100g.
Eleanor Weetch
Society Dietitian
Marks and Spencers Chewing Gum
There are now 3 flavours of chewing gum which are sweetened with sucralose which are suitable and do not need to be counted for the PKU diet. I picked these packets up at the pay desk.
Marks and Spencers are removing aspartame sweetened drinks from their range and replacing them with sucralose sweetened ones. That’s good news!
Sainsbury’s 6 Real Fruit Jam Tarts
These have been wrongly labeled as containing 0.1g protein for each jam tart. This is incorrect. They are 3.7gms per 100gms. Sainsbury’s are grateful for drawing their attention to this mistake and will be changing the label.
Just a word of warning about food labels. If you see something which looks too good to be true by having a much lower protein content than you would expect then it probably is not correct. Please get in touch with Eleanor and she can check it out for you.
dietitian@nspku.org
Ingredients are always listed with the main ingredient first and then listed in descending order. If there is an ingredient high up on the list which you normally do not take and the protein is unusually low it is likely there has been a mistake.
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Cooking4Fun Cookbook and DVD
This is available for only £10 from the Birmingham Childrens Hospital
For more details click here
Dietary
Information
New
on Prescription
- FirstPlay Dietary Foods Ltd.
This
burger mix comes in sachets and each sachet provides 1 Exchange. You can make a
very big burger for 1 exchange or 2 average-sized burgers which will be half an
exchange each.
Don’t
just make burgers, you can make the mix into a sausage shape or into meat ball
shapes. The latter would be really
nice in a free tomato-based sauce. See
page 16 in the purple booklet. As
the mix is dry it’s not very heavy so would be useful for travelling, visiting
friends, BBQ school trips and so on.
At the
moment comes in original flavour. You
add water and simmer and have a good hot pudding which you can add raspberry jam
to or serve with stewed fruit or tinned fruit.
You could also serve it cold with fruit on top or with a sweet sauce such
as Tate and Lyle Saucy (except chocolate) or Silver Spoon Treat syrups-
strawberry or maple or Rowse luxury strawberry or ginger sauce which is a bit
more sophisticated! A swirl of
squirty cream ( Anchor Aerosol Real
Dairy Cream)100mls = ½ Exchange )could finish it off!
New
on Prescription
- SHS/Nutricia
This
rice can be used in sweet and savoury dishes.
SHS have produced a lovely recipe pack to go with the rice which can be
added to their Low Protein Cookery File. Ask
your dietitian about how to obtain this.
Marks and Spencers
Good
news for us.
Marks and Spencers have made the decision to change all their aspartame
sweetened drinks over to sucralose. This
will take a little time but it will mean a much wider choice of drinks from this
shop. Sucralose is free of
phenylalanine.
General
Dietary Ltd
Ener-G
Range
Pasta:
Low
Protein Lasagne
Low
Protein Large Shells
Low
Protein Small Shells
Low
Protein Macaroni
Low
Protein Spaghetti
All the above pastas have been discontinued by General Dietary Ltd. because of
low demand for them.
SHS Snack Pots
These
have been temporarily discontinued but they are expected back at the end of
October / beginning of November 2006.
Lowprofin
Crunch Bars
The following message has been sent to us by the manufacturers SHS:
Due to the greater than expected demand for the new Loprofin Crunch
Bars we are sorry to inform you that we will be unable
to fulfill orders in
the short term.
We apologise for any inconvenience and
we understand that this is frustrating as the
product has only been launched recently.
Blue
Dragon Bean Thread Noodles
These noodles have now been discontinued.
Valpiform
Biscuits and Savoury Bites
Ultrapharm Limited has taken over
the distribution in the UK for the Valpiform low protein products.
Valpiform LP Savoury Bites 100g
Valpiform LP Cookies with Chocolate
Nuggets 135g Valpiform LP Shortbread Biscuits 120g
The products are listed by most
Wholesalers however if the retail Chemist is unable to obtain supplies please
ask the Pharmacist to call our Customer Care Line 01491 578016. We will despatch
the same day for next day delivery.
Marc Lewis CEO, Ultrapharm Ltd marc@gfdiet.com
www.gfdiet.com
Streaky
Strips
These
streaky strips which look like bacon have now been discontinued in the
UK
.
Letter
received from Morning Star Farms
We
regret to inform you that Morning Star will no longer be able to produce the
streaky strips and back bacon products.
These
products have gained great acceptance among the English consumers and developed
a strong and growing
business over the years.
However, we are not able to ensure our future ability to maintain GMO
status in these products.
In
compliance with our commitment to selling only GMO free products in the
UK, we have discontinued production.
General
Manager
Morning
Star Farms
LOW
PROTEIN RECIPE FILE
This super red recipe file produced by the West Midlands
Support Group for PKU has recently been expanded and
contains yet more wonderful
recipes. All the recipes have been thoroughly tried and tested.
Each recipe is on laminated, wipe clean sheets which can be
removed from the file.
The cost of the file is £20 which includes postage and packing. No profit
is made on these sales.
If you would like a copy please complete
this form and send a cheque made payable
to BCH Charity Fund 333 050 for £20 and send to:
Dietetic Department,
Birmingham Children’s Hospital,
Steelhouse Lane,
Birmingham
B4 6NH
Don’t forget to include your postage details!
Updated Publications
Lets learn about PKU 7-11
years is now available to purchase by post for £30 including postage.
This is a learning skills guide intended for dietitians and nurse specialists
for educating children about PKU. Click on the link above for an extract
that includes the contents details. For further information, please
contact dietitan@nspku.org
To order please send a cheque made payable to the NSPKU to the address on the
home page.
The Pictorial Guide to low
protein foods has been recently updated. See publications or click on the link for
more information.
The document providing advise on claiming disability
living allowance (DLA) is in the process of being updated. The latest
draft is available to download. See publications or click on the link for
more information.
Please beware that the following
drinks contain Aspartame, even though it isn't mentioned on the label:
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Sound
Vodka Orange Drink;
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Vodka
Storm Blueberry;
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Maverick
Code Red Tequila and Watermelon;
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Maverick
Code Green Tequila and Lime;
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Rum
Tribe Lemon and Lime;
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Echo
Vodka Lemon and Lime.
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