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If you or any members of your family or friends have food allergies, suffer from allergic symptoms, sourcing products and services to solve your allergies or specific dietary requirements such as gluten free, wheat free, soy free, sugar free, fructose malabsorption, egg free or are searching for dairy free foods, "What Can I Eat" website directory can help you, "Find your Perfect Match".


WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT TOOL FOR AUSSIE CONSUMERS? 
About 1 in 20 Australians have a transient food allergy. As food allergies are not curable, the best means of preventing a reaction is to avoid allergy-causing food.


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Did you know:

  • A study of food allergy trends in Australian children, conducted over 12 years, has shown a 12-fold increase in incidence.
  • The most severe and potentially fatal type of food allergy, which may result in anaphylaxis, has also dramatically increased. 
  • A specialist allergy practise in the Australian Capital Territory conducting the study, found that  peanuts, eggs, cows milk and cashews were responsible for most common reactions.
  • That 1 in 100 Australians are estimated to suffer from coeliac disease and only 75% are diagnosed.

It has been estimated that allergies account for around half a million sick days in Australia each year and that about
Whether or not you have a food allergy, intolerance or diet restriction, you most likely know someone who does.  This site is not only helpful to those effected but it helps those who must cater for someone with a special dietary need.  That can include parents of children with allergies, resorts, restaurants that cater for people with allergies, retirement villages, airlines, cruises or even Christmas Dinner.

The www.whatcanieat.com.au   website is an established, published website that officially launched on January 1, 2009. In just two weeks, the site had over 2,779 registered members and thousands more hits.   Suppliers are joining the site daily since the launch date with over 300 products now showcasing.  The site is averaging 1000 viewers weekly from 11 different countries. Stories, testimonies, and informative articles are pouring in from viewers and suppliers.

Testimonials

  • Being a one-person business, I do not have the resources to be able to reach my  target market effectively, my reports have shown that your site is the number 1 traffic flow for hits to my website, so your advertising is certain to reach its target.
    Kris Barrett Owner  - gcFree
  • This is great, thank you. I have many friends who will also benefit keep up the great work.  You make feeding my family easier.
    Catherine - satisfied customer
  • It was such an easy process using the website, then to navigate around the site and find the products that I wanted was simple! I was really impressed with the layout, and how you can choose your intolerances. What a great idea! - Cassie Wells - Orgran Natural Foods
  • I have run my own restaurant for almost 10 years now and only recently my customers have been requesting gluten free meals.  Being unaware of their needs, I turned to the What can I eat site and was pleased to find a selection of products I now use in my restaurant.  Being able to provide these meals has definitely increased customer loyalty.
    Kay - The Chocolate Cottage


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    We strongly recommend at “What Can I Eat” that you be specifically diagnosed to find out what may be causing the inflammation in your body.   Trying to guess can cause extensive frustration.   There are a wide range of products and services on the market that can assist you with this process. 
    Please check out Support – Diagnosis .

Build your "My List"  (for a sample click here)
(A virtual shopping cart of companies products and services that you are interested in - Email it to yourself for future reference)

You are then able to search for products that match your individual dietary needs through the intolerances search. eg.You may wish to search for ‘wheatfree’ and ‘sugarfree’ products. Simply tick the boxes that apply to your search and then choose the category you are interested in eg.Bread.  All companies that have qualifying products in that category will then be displayed.  

You can choose this product to go into your "My List" for future reference and continue your search in other categories or simply click onto a company logo of choice to open to a page that has:

  • a full product description
  • details as to where to locate the product
  • how to contact the manufacturer
  • website links

The information on this page is supplied and controlled by the manufacturer or supplier under the guidance and layout structure of whatcanieat.com.au