Food allergy is reported as the commonest adverse reaction to food components, whose prevalence has increased in recent years. As food avoidance is mainly in practice the only way to prevent hypersensitive consumers from ingesting allergenic substances, it is imperative to provide complete and accurate information on food ingredients. In this scenario, there is a need for precise, fast and cost-effective methods for the high-throughput screening of specific allergen content in food products. This work reviews recent approaches, existing kits for food-borne allergen detection and cutting-edge applications by focusing on the sensitivity, selectivity and applicability of current methods in food samples. In addition, the advantages, benefits and limitations of each approach are discussed to establish the most suitable methods and which challenges are to be addressed in forthcoming years from an analytical viewpoint.

据报道，食物过敏是对食物成分最常见的不良反应，近年来其发病率有所增加。由于在实践中避免食物主要是防止过敏的消费者摄入过敏性物质的唯一方法，因此必须提供有关食物成分的完整而准确的信息。在这种情况下，需要一种精确，快速且经济高效的方法来高通量筛选食品中特定的过敏原含量。这项工作重点关注食品样品中当前方法的敏感性，选择性和适用性，从而回顾了最近的方法，用于食品中过敏原检测和尖端应用的现有试剂盒。另外，优点