Certain foods or dietary patterns are linked with better control of your asthma. Others may make it worse. Depending on what you've eaten, you can see the effects in hours.

Food can affect how well your lungs function, how often you have asthma attacks and how well your puffer works.

Here's what we know about which foods to eat more of, and which are best to eat in smaller amounts, if you have asthma.

About one in ten Australians (2.7 million people) have asthma. This makes it the fourth most common chronic (persisting) disease in Australia.