Food Allergies: High-Pressure Processing Effects on Food Allergens and Allergenicity

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Food sensitivity is an adverse reaction to a food which other people can safely eat, and includes food allergies, food intolerances, microbial toxications, and chemical sensitivities, whereas food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by body’s immune system. Foodborne allergic reactions can sometimes cause serious illness and death (Bozog˘lu and Tokus¸og˘lu, 2014).