I can’t eat raw onion or anything in the onion family, and onion powder appears as a flavouring on a large percentage of snacks.
Cooked onion is ok though, once it’s translucent. Took years to figure out what was triggering the migraines.
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Thorry@feddit.org 1 week ago
Fuck you asshole, I love onions, but I’m allergic. After a major incident I have learnt to avoid them completely. Luckily this seems like a common enough thing that onion free versions of stuff are usually available.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thorry@feddit.org 1 week ago
Yeah it sucks. I can’t eat cooked onions as well as raw or powdered. I do a little bit better with green and red onion in small amounts. But it’s a risky proposition, so I rather avoid the completely.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 week ago
The image doesn’t apply to you because you don’t don’t like onions.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
sooooo you like onions
CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I wanna know where you shop. I still have to run the gamut of ‘I’m allergic to onions’, ‘does that include green onions?’ ‘…yes.’ among other key signifiera that people don’t really think about what an onion is normally.
I really miss garlic.
Thorry@feddit.org 1 week ago
Just regular super markets, perhaps I’ve just gotten better at finding the onion free stuff. I’ve also figured out for some items it says onion powder as an ingredient, but I have zero reaction. It might be just a tiny amount perhaps, not enough to cause a reaction. Or somewhere along the way the recipe changed and a onion substitute is used without them updating the ingredients list. I have also found out the hard way not everything is like that tho and have gotten reactions from stuff with onion powder in them, even in small amounts.
I still remember finding out I was allergic. Apparently my mom knew since I was very small and just made sure I never ate onions. She however never actually told me, or maybe she did and I forgot because I was a kid, who knows. Until I was a teenager and ate dinner regularly at my girlfriend’s place. Not before long we ate a delicious rabbit stew, which also contained a lot of onion. I proceeded to be sick for weeks after. My mom laughed at me saying I was allergic to onions and I was dumb for eating something like that. I said she never told me I was allergic, but she was sure she had. I was so sick, I learnt my lesson and have avoided onion ever since.
CardboardDecoy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Huh. Yeah I have kind of a three strikes thing. I can eat something with onion powder once, but if I do it again withing a couple days it starts fucking me up.
I got officially tested as a teen. I’m also allergic to corn and apples, which are two other incredibly overused food additive bases. I actually didn’t even really feel any effects until my 20’s wgere all pf a sudden I was in an Emergency room in incredible pain. It took taking the allergies seriously to clear it up because otherwise there was apparently no other explaination for why I felt like I was turning inside out every few days.