Table 1.

Proteins present in The Big Eight foods known to induce allergy.

Cow milk	Casein, whey, bovine serum albumin, immunoglobulin G heavy chain and a-lactalbumin [19]
Hen’s egg	Whites: Ovomucoid, ovalbumin, ovotransferring, and lysosome [20] Yolk: Livetin, vitellenin and apoprotein B [20]
Peanut	Cupin(Ara h 1, 3), prolamin(Ara h 2, 6, 7, 9), profilin(Ara h 5), bet v-1-related proteins(Ara h 8), oleosin(Ara h 10,11) and defensin(Ara h 12, 13) [21]
Tree nut	Vicilin, 2S albumin, nsLTP, legumin, bet v 1-like, oleosin, 60 s acidic ribosomal prot. P2, manganese superoxide dismutase and profiling [22]
Shellfish	Tropomyosin, arginine kinase, myosin light chain, and sarcoplasmic calcium-binding protein [23]
Finfish	Parvalbumins, enolase, aldolase, tropomyosin, vitellogenin [24]
Soy	Hull proteins, kunitz trypsin inhibitor, glycinin, α-subunit of β-con-glycinin, and 50-kd protein with homology to chlorophyll A-B binding protein and starvation-associated message [25]
Wheat	α-Amylase/trypsin inhibitor, album, globulins, serine proteinase inhibitor, lipid protein transfer, thioredoxin, peroxidase, gliadin, thiol reductase, and thaumatin-like protein [26]