CW & CE food and drink and artificial sweeteners
Dec 3, 2018, 1:20 pm
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CW & CE food and drink and artificial sweeteners
Thanks to FT and its helpful members, our very reasonably priced CE & CW flights for next years holiday to San Diego are booked. Disability assistance mobility level 1 is booked for my DH and I have just to call to pre book our seats as MMB is showing the seats with a booking fee.
My next question is how much information does/can BA provide about the ingredients of inflight food and drinks?
I hope full sugar classic Coke or Pepsi is available.
My DH has an allergy to aspartame and saccharin which cause migraines but is okay with sucralose or steviol. Many drinks have been a challenge since the introduction of the sugar tax including Irn Bru. The alcohol on offer is not an alternative due to his medication. Sweeteners can lurk in mayonnaises and in some desserts.
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My next question is how much information does/can BA provide about the ingredients of inflight food and drinks?
I hope full sugar classic Coke or Pepsi is available.
My DH has an allergy to aspartame and saccharin which cause migraines but is okay with sucralose or steviol. Many drinks have been a challenge since the introduction of the sugar tax including Irn Bru. The alcohol on offer is not an alternative due to his medication. Sweeteners can lurk in mayonnaises and in some desserts.
Please move this to an existing thread if more relevant
Dec 3, 2018, 2:58 pm
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Thanks to FT and its helpful members, our very reasonably priced CE & CW flights for next years holiday to San Diego are booked. Disability assistance mobility level 1 is booked for my DH and I have just to call to pre book our seats as MMB is showing the seats with a booking fee.
My next question is how much information does/can BA provide about the ingredients of inflight food and drinks?
I hope full sugar classic Coke or Pepsi is available.
My DH has an allergy to aspartame and saccharin which cause migraines but is okay with sucralose or steviol. Many drinks have been a challenge since the introduction of the sugar tax including Irn Bru. The alcohol on offer is not an alternative due to his medication. Sweeteners can lurk in mayonnaises and in some desserts.
Please move this to an existing thread if more relevant
My next question is how much information does/can BA provide about the ingredients of inflight food and drinks?
I hope full sugar classic Coke or Pepsi is available.
My DH has an allergy to aspartame and saccharin which cause migraines but is okay with sucralose or steviol. Many drinks have been a challenge since the introduction of the sugar tax including Irn Bru. The alcohol on offer is not an alternative due to his medication. Sweeteners can lurk in mayonnaises and in some desserts.
Please move this to an existing thread if more relevant
Reference food, BA seem to have a large number of special meal options, have you looked at those? There may be a artificial sweetener free option, or one that is highly likely to be so.
Dec 3, 2018, 3:03 pm
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I haven't got an allergy to sweeteners but I really dislike the taste and I can tell they are present by smell alone. BA is generally OK, the full fat fizzy coke drinks are served, though I see that some of the Schweppes drinks have gone to sweeteners (e.g. saccharin in Bitter Lemon). The Fever-Tree range doesn't use sweeteners so that's another option, their Light items use fructrose so that's OK. I tend to stick to sparkling water, but you can mix that with say a bit of apple juice and lemon slice to get a pleasant and natural flavour.
The food is usually sweetener free as far as I can tell, I haven't come across anything like sweeteners in jams, yogurt (my personal key hate), desserts, sauces or salad dressing so far.
The food is usually sweetener free as far as I can tell, I haven't come across anything like sweeteners in jams, yogurt (my personal key hate), desserts, sauces or salad dressing so far.