The thing about the current focus on the twelve main allergens is that people have then pulled themselves into this false idea that they are the ONLY allergens.
It thing that pisses me off even more than this is people who have an allergy or a child with an allergy who are then utterly dismissive of the concept of anyone who doesn't have one of the twelve.
These are the people who should be most tuned into how serious it can be.
I do not get the nut ban in schools - outright bans are discouraged by allergy charities - they advocate for management of allergies because they know that kids have to learn to cope from an early age.
My son has a fruit allergy. It's not on The List. He's come out in hives from contact around school on several occasions even after school had been told.
The last time he ate it he was a gnat whisker from A&E as he was wheezing and his lips and mouth swelled up.
I have struggled to get school to take it seriously. The GP won't do fuck all because apparently it's being managed (DS really probably should have an EpiPen at this point).
Nut allergy people really should be more clued up than most and it's frustrating as hell when they go 'ban this but make them have fruit' which has a range of allergies which are more common than people realise.
This aside the whole 'bad food, good food' shite isn't encouraged because that leads to eating disorders and you have SEN kids who are particularly sensitive to foods (and more likely to have allergies strangely even) who get forgotten in this because of ignorance. DS was first flagged as SEN because of food issues.
We had so many issues with DS and food... Until a friend who has a really restricted diet said that as a child his parents put pressure on him over food and he thinks that's partly what contributed to him being so picky. He also said as he's got older and not had that pressure he has relaxed a bit (he really pretty much eats chicken and pizza and that's it). It was about this idea of 'safe food' and not safe food.
We backed off DS after this because we were shit out of other ideas. We just let him have access to other things and made a habit of sharing food between us if we wanted. He then started to say he liked the look of something and could he try. It was a complete nightmare up to this point.
Plus the normalisation of snacking, whether it be 'healthy' or not, isn't in itself healthy. It doesn't allow kids to learn to get hungry. There's just a constant availability of food on demand. Schools really shouldn't be managing kids who have an absence of food at home precisely because it impacts negatively on other kids too. Breakfast clubs rather than snacks should be the way it is handled.
Honestly EVERYTHING about food in primary schools is fucked in the head and poorly thought out. It just follows the latest trend rather than actually giving the subject a scientific / educated approach.