Hi Andy,
Some info that may be useful.
For the US any food can cause an adverse reaction, eight types of food account for about 90 percent of all reactions:
Eggs
Milk and Dairy
Peanuts
Tree nuts
Fish
Shellfish
Wheat
Soy
Sesame is now also included as the 9th major food allergen in the US
Studies published in 2018 and 2019 estimate the number of Americans of all ages who have convincing symptoms of allergy to specific foods:
Shellfish: 8.2 million
Milk: 6.1 million
Peanut: 6.1 million
Tree nuts: 3.9 million
Egg: 2.6 million
Fin fish: 2.6 million
Wheat: 2.4 million
Soy: 1.9 million
Sesame: 0.7 million
Source: FARE here
UK Food Standards Agency - Food Allergens:
The 14 allergens are: celery, cereals containing gluten (such as barley and oats), crustaceans (such as prawns, crabs and lobsters), eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs (such as mussels and oysters), mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites (at a concentration of more than ten parts per million) and tree nuts (such as almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, cashews, pecans, pistachios and macadamia nuts).
Imperial College London UK 2021: Deaths from food allergy rare and decreasing in the UK, finds study
Deaths from food-induced anaphylaxis are rare. The study also assessed food-related anaphylaxis fatalities, recorded since 1992, when data first became available. There had been 187 fatalities since 1992 where the cause of death was likely to be food-induced anaphylaxis. At least 86 (46%) of these were due to peanuts or tree nuts such as almonds, cashews and walnuts.
Sixty-six deaths were reported in children, of which 14% were caused by peanuts, 9% by tree nuts and in 12% of cases, the nut could not be identified. However, the most common single cause of fatal anaphylaxis was cows’ milk, responsible for 26% of cases. Furthermore, there was a trend towards a greater proportion of reactions being caused by milk since 1992.
Kind regards,
Tony