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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol. 2021 Jan 12;126(5):489–497. doi: 10.1016/j.anai.2021.01.001

Table 1.

Common FPIES food triggers-selected studies.

Reference Country Study design Number of
patients
Ages of patients Food triggers Number of food
triggers
Mehr et al, 200927 Australia Retrospective, single center 35 Children Rice-40%
Soy-34%
Cow’s milk-20%
Oat-6%
Sweet potato-6%
1 food-83%
2 foods-17%

Range 1-2 foods
Mehr et al, 201726 Australia Retrospective, multi-center 230 Children Any grain-52%
Rice-45%
Cow’s milk-33%
Egg-12%
Any meat-10%
Any fruit-10%
Oat-9%
Any vegetable-8%
Chicken-8%
Soy-5%
Fish-5%
1 food-68%
2 foods-20%
3 foods-7%
≥4 foods-6%

Range 1-≥4 foods
Tan et al, 201421 Australia Retrospective, single center 31 Adults Crustacean-26%
Mollusk-16%
Egg-16%
Fish-10%
1 food-84%
2 foods-13%
3 foods-3%

Range 1-3 foods
Du et al, 201820 Canada Retrospective, single center 20 Adults Shellfish-65%
Cow’s milk-20%
Wheat-20%
Egg-15%
Did not evaluate
Xepapadaki et al, 201933 Greece Retrospective, single center 72 Children Cow’s milk-46%
Fish-35%
Rice-10%
Egg-7%
Did not evaluate
Sopo et al, 201231 Italy Retrospective, multicenter 66 Children Cow’s milk-65%
Fish-12%
Egg-6%
1 food-85%
2 foods-14%
3 foods-1%

Range 1-3 foods
Vazquez-Ortiz et al, 201732 Spain Retrospective, single center 81 Children Fish-54%
Cow’s milk-26%
Egg-10%
Rice-7%
1 food-99%
2 foods-0%
3 foods-1%

Range 1-3 foods
Alonso, et al, 201923 Spain Prospective, single center 8 Children Cow’s milk-50%
Fish-38%
Egg-13%
1 food-100%
Diaz et al, 201913 Spain Retrospective, multicenter 120 Children Cow’s milk-37%
Fish-33%
Egg-11%
Rice-10%
1 food-84%
≥2 foods-16%

Range 1-8 foods
Ludman et al, 201425 UK Retrospective, single center 54 Children Cow’s milk-46%
Fish-15%
Egg-13%
Soy-11%
Wheat-11%
Chicken-7%
Banana-6%
Oat-6%
1 food-70%
≥2 foods-30%

Range 1-≥2 foods
Sicherer et al, 199830 USA Retrospective, single center 20 Children Soy-65%
Cow’s milk-60%
Rice-5%
Pea-5%
Turkey-5%
Chicken-5%
1 food-45%
2 foods-55%

Range 1-2 foods
Fogg et al, 200624 USA Retrospective, single center 19 Children Cow’s milk-68%
Soy-63%
Rice-16%
Oat-16%
Wheat-5%
Egg-5%
1 food-42%
2 foods-47%
3 foods-5%
4 foods-5%

Range 1-4 foods
Nowak-Wegrzyn et al, 200328 USA Retrospective, single center 44 Children Cow’s milk-66%
Soy-54%
Rice-23%
Oat-20%
1 food-48%
2 foods-32%
3 foods-7%
4 foods-2%
5 foods-2%
6 foods-2%
7 foods-2%


Range 1-7 foods
Ruffner et al, 201329 USA Retrospective, single center 462 Children Cow’s milk-67%
Soy-41%
Rice-19%
Oat-16%
Wheat-10%
Egg-11%
Any vegetable-11%
Corn-8%
Any fruit-8%
Any meat and/or fish-6%
1-2 foods-70%
3-6 foods-25%
≥7 foods-5%

Range 1-≥7 foods
Caubet et al, 20149 USA Mixed prospective and retrospective, single center 160 Children and adults Cow’s milk-44%
Any grain-44%
Soy-41%
Rice-23%
Oat-16%
Fish and/or shellfish-7%
1 food-65%
2 foods-26%
≥3 foods-9%

Range 1-10 foods
Maciag et al, 202010 USA and multinational (did not specify other countries) Retrospective, multicenter 441 Children Any grain-60%
Cow’s milk-53%
Any vegetable-43%
Any fruit-38%
Soy-37%
Oat-37%
Rice-34%
Egg-23%
Any meat-18%
Sweet potato-17%
Wheat-16%
Avocado-13%
Peanut-12%
Any poultry-12%
Banana-12%
Peas-9%
Fish-9%
Beef-9%
Any tree nut-8%
Apple-8%
Corn-7%
Chicken-7%
Squash-6%
Shellfish-6%
White potato-5%
1 food group-31%
2 food groups-17%
3 food groups-17%
4 food groups-12%
5 food groups-7%
6 food groups-6%
≥7 food groups-10%

Range 1-13 food groups

Food triggers are listed in descending order. Only foods reported avoided by ≥5% of the subjects within each study are reported.