- Intolerances are an important component of a Resident's Dietary Information.
- Intolerances are different, however, from Dietary Restrictions.
- Food Intolerances involve the digestive system, while Food Allergens impact the immune system.
Unlike Dietary Restrictions, Intolerances do not automatically restrict meal choices, but they can still be shown on Order Forms, Reports and Tray Tags.
In the example below, we can see this Resident has Chestnuts listed under Intolerances in the Dietary Information section of their Resident profile:
This information can then also be seen in their Resident Meal Choice Summary Report:
In our Catering module there is a large list of possible Intolerances:
- Alcohol
- All nuts
- Almond
- Animal milk
- Apples
- Apricot
- Apricots
- Asparagus
- Avocado
- Bacon
- Banana
- Barley
- Beef
- Brazil nut
- Broccoli
- Buckwheat
- Butter
- Cabbage
- Caffeine
- Calamari
- Capsicum
- Carrot
- Cashew nut
- Celery
- Cheese
- Cherry
- Chestnuts
- Chia
- Chicken
- Chickpea
- Chilli
- Chocolate
- Citrus
- Clam
- Coconut
- Corn
- Cornflakes
- Crab
- Crayfish
- Cream
- Crocodile
- Crustaceans
- Dairy
- Date
- Eel
- Egg white
- Egg yolk
- Eggs
- Emu
- Fig
- Fish
- Fructose
- Garlic
- Gluten
- Gluten (in wheat; oats; rye and barley)
- Goat
- Grape
- Green Bean
- Green Pea
- Ham
- Hazelnut
- Histamine
- Kangaroo
- Kidney bean
- Kiwi fruit
- Lamb
- Legumes
- Lentils
- Lettuce
- Linseed
- Lupin
- Macadamia nut
- Maize
- Mango
- Melon
- Mint
- Molluscs
- Mushroom
- Mushrooms
- Mussel
- Mustard
- Oats
- Onion
- Orange
- Oyster
- Parsley
- Pastry Products
- Peanut
- Peanut Butter
- Pears
- Peas
- Pecan nut
- Pepper
- Peppercorn
- Pineapple
- Pistachio nut
- Poppy seed
- Pork
- Potato
- Prawns
- Pumpkin
- Pumpkin seed
- Rice
- Rye
- Salmon
- Salt
- Scallop
- Scampi
- Seafood
- Seaweed
- Sesame seed
- Shellfish
- Shrimp
- Silverbeet
- Soya
- Spices
- Spinach
- Strawberry
- Sugar
- Sulphur dioxide and sulphites
- Sunflower seed
- Tomato
- Tomato based food
- Tomato Sauce
- Tomato skin
- Tree nuts
- Tuna
- Turkey
- Vasoactive amines
- Venison
- Walnut
- Watermelon
- Wheat
- Wheat gluten (gliadin)
- White Bread
- Yeast
- Zucchini
One or more of the above Intolerances can be selected for a Resident by ticking the checkbox against the ingredient name.
In some cases, a Resident may also need to include an intolerance in addition to the above list.
In this case, the Site (org) can add further Intolerances in Dietary Settings. Once a new Intolerance is added in Dietary Settings, it becomes available for selection in a Resident's Dietary Information profile, under Intolerances:
To learn how to add to Dietary Settings, click here.
To learn more about Food Intolerances, click on the PDF below.