AllergoBox, daily website allergic and food intolerant people

AllergoBox, daily website allergic and food intolerant people
Ensure a system without any particular ingredient, imposes a number of constraints for allergy and food intolerance: Always read the labels of all products before eating, do not know in advance if you can follow his friends restaurant, constantly seek income and substitution when cooking ideas. AllergoBox is here to answer all these problems!

Originally from AllergoBox a need experienced by its creators

Two young fathers in the Paris region, faced with the problem of food allergies through their children, launched AllergoBox.com in December 2014 to make life easier for allergic and food intolerant people . "  It is a fact, those affected by allergies spend on average 30 minutes longer to do their shopping than people without diabetes, it is time to check and always decipher lists of allergenic products , essential for a food allergic person. Similarly, when we go to the restaurant, you never know in advance if you will be able to find compatible flat with its restrictions, so most of the time it fails. It is this observation that the idea of AllergoBox and we started  , "says Julian Dean, one of the two founders of the initiative AllergoBox.

How it works ?

On AllergoBox, it is enough to create a free profile in which information about allergies or food intolerances , and the search engine then allows find, in line with its profile of food products for normal consumption, the recipes , and soon flat major restaurant chains . "  We wanted to make AllergoBox most adapted to the reality of food allergies. We can describe its very finely profile by filling several allergies, possible cross allergies and sensitivity to traces for each allergen entered in the profile. It can also create multiple profiles for families with several children allergic to different foods, for example  , "says Julian Dean.

A free, early success and a future app!

AllergoBox is completely free to use and ad-free. The only revenues come from start-up brands in the food industry that can reference their products and the associated ingredients lists. They thus benefit from targeted exposure for their products according to different user profiles and the ability to trust their relationship with allergic consumers by alerting in case of changes allergens its products. "  Services that resonate with manufacturers since Fleury Michon and Picot (Lactalis Group) have already chosen to join AllergoBox and many discussions have begun with the French retail brands and national brands  " Julien says Dean. After the success of the concept (over 180 000 unique visitors and 15,000 profiles created on the site in six months), AllergoBox plans to launch its mobile application in the summer of 2015. Completely free, the app will the compatibility of the product with its food profile by scanning the bar code while one is shopping  !

An initiative that bring together actors

AllergoBox has partnerships with associations of pediatricians and allergists and thus offers informative content, fully and exclusively written by doctors. Associations side of allergic and intolerant, AllergoBox is supported by the main actors: the French Association of Gluten Intolerant to (AFDIAG), the Asthma and Allergy Association, and the French Association for the Prevention of Allergies (AFPRAL). An essential legitimacy as Julian Dean, "  a service devoted to food allergies as AllergoBox must place data reliability at the heart of its priorities, for obvious reasons user risk. Medical and community partnerships qu'AllergoBox could get underscore the legitimacy and seriousness of our approach and its usefulness!  ".