Quorn intolerance??

[Jessie2024]

I don’t even know if this is a thing or not, but I think I could have a quorn intolerance. I’ve been vegetarian for years and I’ve always had quorn, but then the past few weeks I’ve eaten food with quorn in and thrown up a couple of hours later, each time. I didn’t make the correlation immediately and I actually thought it was eggs at first (one of the melas was a veggie chicken omelette), but last night I threw up again after a veggie chicken pie and the only thing linking all three meals is the quorn. Has anyone ever heard of this? Is it a common thing?

DD's throat tingles and she has difficulty breathing if she eats Quorn, thankfully not to a needing an epi pen level and she avoids it now, which is fun at Uni as most of the Veggie food in her catered halls was Quorn.
It gives me the shits

It is quite common. There was even an attempt at litigation in the US claiming it wasn't a food stuff. And it seems to occur in people who have eaten it for years, as well as those that haven't. I have never got on with it, so avoid it at all costs.

Bothh DD2 and I can't eat quorn she vomits I just have terrible abdominal cramps
Neither of us is allergic to eggs or mushrooms

Do you never eat any mushrooms then?

I can't eat Quorn as it triggers my IBS.

Quorn gives me terrible stomach cramps. Vile stuff.
Am not allergic to anything.

I think it is 'a thing'. I cannot eat it as it upsets my stomach, and makes me feel nauseous. I have a friend who is the same. Luckily it's not an issue because I wasn't very keen on the taste of it anyway! I'm not a vegetarian but I'm not a big fan of meat,I only eat chicken and fish, and bacon occasionally. If I eat a meat substitute,I much prefer soya protein.
Incidentally,I saw a programme on TV a couple of years ago about how Quorn was made. If I hadn't already been unable to eat it it,I think this programme would have definitely put me off it. All this grey sludge being forced out of gigantic pipes. 🤢

Yep. It doesn’t strike me as something people should consume.

I’ve been vegan for years and eat lots of different meat substitutes without any trouble but never ate any quorn products until recently.

It gave me the most incredible diarrhoea, so much so that I assumed it must be a bug until it happened the second time.

There is a warning on the label but it is buried - I cannot believe it is not more prominent as I have since heard so many people say they have trouble with it.

There is a warning on the label but it is buried

Is it the oneclaiming rare allergy reactions? It's mold so uite a few people would be allergic. But my god, that warning has to be bigger!

I can't eat it, I get stomach cramps and then the runs.

I think this is quite common. I always used to react very badly to quorn so I avoided it for years. Discovered by accident a few years ago that I can actually eat it now, but I am still cautious about it as the reactions weren't pleasant. My mum had the opposite experience...ate it without problems for years and then suddenly started reacting very badly.

I'm OK with other meat substitutes, though I generally avoid them anyway...if I really wanted to eat meat, I would just eat meat!

And my H…

I think if many people saw how their food got to them, they would be put off eating it. Especially animal products. Intensive farming and abattoirs are brutal. Gelatine in lots of foods…. 🤢

Many years ago, my local Roteract club visited the factory. We got to sample various mals and I ended up in hospital with a reaction. Many years later at a friend's party I had a reaction to the Lasagne. Turned out it was made with a quorn. I saw an NHS immunologist. Dhe told me it is rather common.

I recently been diagnosed with an intolerance to soya. I can take little amounts in bread etc but can tolerate anymore