In today's society most people think if your only allergic to 'peanuts' you cant be allergic to anything else. They try to lecture and explain to you about your own allergy when you've been the one to deal with it for so long - not them.
Now a days there are tones of people allergic to nuts, shellfish and multiple other kinds of foods. Doctors cannot simply write 'allergic to peanuts' on someone's medic alert protection and expect it to be alright. If your fatally allergic to one kind of nut there isn't any reason why you couldn't potentially be allergic to another. Because that's what they are - different "legume family or not' they are all types of nuts whether that be a peanut or tree nut.
People grow into allergies and grow out of them so fast that one day you could have a reaction to something that you've been eating your entire life and then in a year or two the allergy is gone. In situations like that it's safer to just avoid the food or food product for as long as possible unless you want to risk getting tested.
I've had people ask me multiple times if I would ever get tested to see if I could eat different types of nuts... That question is so idiotic that I sometimes don't want to warrant it with an answer. If someone is fatally allergic to a type of food then how potentially harmful can it be to be tested with other types of the same food? I'm sure my friends that are allergic to citrus don't get tested once a month to see what fruit to avoid - you simple just avoid it for your own safety. Life is too short and precious to do anything but.
Thinking of these situations did make me realise most people don't know the difference between peanuts and tree nuts in the first place. So I have compiled these lists for a better understanding...
ALLERGIC LIVING describes tree nuts as not just one, but a group of allergens.
In Canada, for food labelling purposes, the following are considered tree nuts:
Almonds
Brazil nuts
Cashews
Hazelnuts
Macadamia nuts
Pecans
Pine nuts
Pistachios
Walnuts
In the United States, the list is longer. It includes:
Almond
Beech nuts
Brazil nuts
Butternuts
Cashews
Chestnuts
Chinquapins
Coconuts
Filberts/hazelnuts
Ginko nuts
Hickory nuts
Lichee nuts
Macadamia nuts/Bush nuts
Pecans
Pine nuts/Pinon nuts
Pistachios
Shea nuts
Walnuts
Now a days there are tones of people allergic to nuts, shellfish and multiple other kinds of foods. Doctors cannot simply write 'allergic to peanuts' on someone's medic alert protection and expect it to be alright. If your fatally allergic to one kind of nut there isn't any reason why you couldn't potentially be allergic to another. Because that's what they are - different "legume family or not' they are all types of nuts whether that be a peanut or tree nut.
People grow into allergies and grow out of them so fast that one day you could have a reaction to something that you've been eating your entire life and then in a year or two the allergy is gone. In situations like that it's safer to just avoid the food or food product for as long as possible unless you want to risk getting tested.
I've had people ask me multiple times if I would ever get tested to see if I could eat different types of nuts... That question is so idiotic that I sometimes don't want to warrant it with an answer. If someone is fatally allergic to a type of food then how potentially harmful can it be to be tested with other types of the same food? I'm sure my friends that are allergic to citrus don't get tested once a month to see what fruit to avoid - you simple just avoid it for your own safety. Life is too short and precious to do anything but.
Thinking of these situations did make me realise most people don't know the difference between peanuts and tree nuts in the first place. So I have compiled these lists for a better understanding...
ALLERGIC LIVING describes tree nuts as not just one, but a group of allergens.
In Canada, for food labelling purposes, the following are considered tree nuts:
Almonds
Brazil nuts
Cashews
Hazelnuts
Macadamia nuts
Pecans
Pine nuts
Pistachios
Walnuts
In the United States, the list is longer. It includes:
Almond
Beech nuts
Brazil nuts
Butternuts
Cashews
Chestnuts
Chinquapins
Coconuts
Filberts/hazelnuts
Ginko nuts
Hickory nuts
Lichee nuts
Macadamia nuts/Bush nuts
Pecans
Pine nuts/Pinon nuts
Pistachios
Shea nuts
Walnuts
