Quorn makes my family ill

[dawn96]

Worst parent award goes to me after a couple months of my daughter getting sick on and off ,vomiting diarrhoea and now a rash I’ve discovered the cause is quorn! And only because my partner had some and the same happened to him ,The company say it’s something like 1 in 200000 people will get a reaction to it but that’s two just in my household ,Anyone else intolerant to quorn ? it’s an interesting one

Sounds awful.

No, we’re fine with quorn here. Love it.

Yes, me. Bad diarrhoea and rash / hives; had it about three times and it’s got worse each time so now I don’t go near it. I’ve certainly heard of others experiencing similar, so those figures seem unlikely!

Yes. I can’t eat quorn. I get awful cramps.

Lots of people have this intolerance. It gives me the symptoms of gastroenteritis.

I thought most people are intolerant or allergic to Quorn

I can't tolerate it... serious shits.

Yes same here! Makes me so ill with stomach-flu type symptoms, agony. Never heard of anyone else having this so makes me feel less odd, thanks.

My husband is. Makes visiting his vegetarian brother interesting...

Me and dh both get stomach cramps and diarrhoea. Ive told my kid never to choose it off the school menu. He was a colicky baby with digestive problems he's now grown out off, but I'm not risking it.

Yep, had it on Saturday and I was straight on the toilet with the shits. DH and DD fine. I vaguely recall having the same symptoms last time I cooked with it (I remember googling and seeing that this was a 'thing') hence not having cooked with it since, but the 'mince' was on special offer at Tesco so thought I'd give it a go.

Won't be eating it again!

My h is the same. We don’t buy it.

Interesting. Had a quorn ‘ham’ sandwich (don’t know why I don’t just have salad and mayo/mustard sandwich as it’s the mustard I want). Resurgence of odd skin excema-like patch on my arm. Not had for ages. Wonder if it was that ?? Hadn’t heard about quite andnallergies.

Didn’t have the reaction before but do now. Started about 10 years ago It’s much more common than they advertise.

No I don't eat it, my step child does as they are a veggie, but I make most of our veggie meals with lentils as a substitute for meat, so just thought I'd pop by and mention that.
This recipe is so much nicer than meat chilli & a billion times nicer than quorn
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/burnt-aubergine-veggie-chilli

Yes me. Makes me very sick and gives my bad stomach cramps. We never eat it for this reason. Most people I know love it!!

I’ve been vegetarian for about 100 years and waaaay back when Quorn first came out and was basically mince or chunks, I couldn’t eat it because it really disagreed with me. Now I can eat most of it, but not sure if it has changed or me.

DH is allergic to mushrooms and quorn makes him projectile vomit as it's mushroom protein

I can't eat quorn it gives me the squits some people can't tolerate it !

No reaction here in the 25 years me, my family, and now my children (and 3 different partners over those years) have been eating it.

I'm the same too, I'm sure I read 20% of people are intolerant.

I had a very painful introduction to vegetarianism in the 90s before I realised.

Quorn is nothing to do with mushrooms. That's a marketing link to make people think it has some kind of plant based or natural origin. It is a fungus of sorts, but the mould kind not the mushroom kind.

I've never had a problem with quorn and I've eaten loads over the years. I don't eat as much as I used to though as I have got better at cooking and rely less on meat substitutes.