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J Agric Food Chem 2021 Mar 25;69(9):2864-2874. Epub 2021 Feb 25.

Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology IZI, Perlickstraße 1, Leipzig 04103, Germany.

Legume proteins are widely used as food ingredients, but only some (soybean, lupin, and peanut) must be declared under consumer safety regulations to protect allergy sufferers. It is not yet mandatory to declare pea proteins as allergens even though they are predicted to be allergenic based on cross-reactivity in sensitized people. The processing of legume proteins can modify their allergenic properties and hence the need for specific and precise methods for the detection of all major legume allergens. Read More

Nutrients 2021 Jan 28;13(2). Epub 2021 Jan 28.

Division of Clinical and Molecular Allergology, Research Center Borstel, Airway Research Center North (ARCN), German Center for Lung Research, 23845 Borstel, Germany.

Lupine flour is a valuable food due to its favorable nutritional properties. In spite of its allergenic potential, its use is increasing. Three lupine species, , , and . Read More

Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 2020 Nov 11;19(6):3886-3915. Epub 2020 Oct 11.

REQUIMTE-LAQV, Faculdade de Farmácia, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Lupine is commonly utilized as a technological food and ingredient in a great variety of processed products (snacks, bakery, meat, and dairy products) principally owing to its nutritional value and technological properties. However, its ingestion, even at trace amounts (in the range of mg protein per kg of food), can lead to severe adverse reactions in allergic individuals. Lupine belongs to the Leguminosae family, having the conglutins (α-, β-, δ-, and γ-) as allergens, among other proteins. Read More

J Paediatr Child Health 2020 10 14;56(10):1613-1617. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.

Aim: Introduction of allergenic solid foods, especially peanut and hen's egg reduces the risk of food allergy development in early childhood. Ideally, parents will offer their infants home-prepared foods; however, many rely on the availability of convenient ready to purchase infant foods. This audit aimed to assess the major food allergen content of commercial infant foods. Read More

Front Plant Sci 2020 21;11:646. Epub 2020 May 21.

Department of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.

Fast and reliable analytical methods for the identification of plants from metagenomic samples play an important role in identifying the components of complex mixtures of processed biological materials, including food, herbal products, gut contents or environmental samples. Different PCR-based methods that are commonly used for plant identification from metagenomic samples are often inapplicable due to DNA degradation, a low level of successful amplification or a lack of detection power. We introduce a method that combines metagenomic sequencing and an alignment-free -mer based approach for the identification of plant DNA in processed metagenomic samples. Read More