I don’t understand, peanuts are legumes, yet are considered a nut when it comes to allergies. To make it more confusing, what’s the actual difference between a nut and a seed? Pine nuts are a high nut allergen but sunflower seeds aren’t. Then there’s the coconut, which isn’t a nut at all, but I cant bring in coconut products to daughters class because they call it a nut?
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People allergic to peanuts are not actually commonly also allergic to tree nuts. What they are commonly allergic to are other legumes such as peas, beans, soybean, etc. But factories that make baked goods will often utilize both peanuts and tree nuts so there can be cross contamination on food items.
Being allergic to tree nuts happen to also be a common allergy though and so schools that are concerned with allergies either due to having a child with documented allergies in a class or just due to blanket bans on the common food allergies will ban both tree nuts and peanuts.
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