Beverage Allergy Allergy to tea is uncommon; it is usually considered a safe drink. Allergy to coffee and to its substitutes (chicory, peas, cereals, and chestnuts) is possible. Pure coffee may be found in cakes, candy, ice cream, malted milk, as a flavoring in a variety of medicines, and in many patented drinks such as [...]

Some well-documented case-histories lend support to the idea that food sensitivity can sometimes be at the root of serious mental illness. But it seems unlikely that it is often so, and it would be a mistake to extrapolate to other cases of mental illness which have been given the same diagnostic labels. There is little [...]