Some 3.6 percent of Americans — fewer than one in 25 — have at least one food allergy or intolerance, according to a new report. Those numbers are lower than many earlier estimates.
The study, published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, drew on the electronic health records of 2.7 million adults and children who received care between 2000 and 2013 at a large health system in the Boston area.
