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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As someone whose allergic to tree nuts I feel I can give some insight here. I’m not allergic to peanuts but I don’t eat them often because my brain associates the texture with tree nuts. Peanut butter is totally fine besides the little bit of cross contamination from factories or shared machines or whatever. Peanuts that come shelled have never and can’t really affect anybody who is allergic to tree nuts. No cross contamination there!
Coconuts actually are tree nuts, and I am allergic to them, however the food with them has relatively little concentrations of oil, which is the allergen that effects me. You’d think that coconut milk would cause people who are allergic to go into anaphlactic shock but it doesn’t really, or at least very minorly compared to cashews which have a very concentrated, dangerous oil. I can actually eat coconut cookies and only feel slight discomfort, while one nibble of a (P)butterjelly sandwich with cashew butter made my whole body purple for 12 hours 🙁
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