food allergy

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   allergic reaction to a substance ingested in food

   Broaderallergy

Questions about food allergy

What does food allergy mean?

food allergy means "allergic reaction to a substance ingested in food".

Is food allergy a common word?

food allergy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.