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Share of U.S. children with food allergies in the past year as of 2018, by age
This statistic displays the percentage of children in the U.S. who had food allergies in the past 12 months as of 2018, by age. In that year, 7.8 percent of children aged 12 to 17 years had food allergies in the past year.