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Kurt

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If a peanut is actually NOT a nut but a bean, why are people with nut allergies allergic to them?
 
Kurt said:
If a peanut is actually NOT a nut but a bean, why are people with nut allergies allergic to them?
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The problem is the use of the word 'nut' as a generic term for a number of food items which aren't related. Peanuts are 'legumes', which are the 'pulses' family. Likewise pinenuts and coconuts are not nuts, but seeds. The word 'nut' is also used for tree nuts like hazelnut / almond etc...I think those ones are technically seeds too.

The connection isn't the term 'nut', but particular vegetable proteins. People who have proper* (as opposed to the imaginary ones that Wannabee mentioned)food allergies are often allergic to a few 'nut', fruit and vegetable foodstuffs. I think peanuts, treenuts and various seeds are the most common, and often occur together.

My husband is allergic to peas, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, lentils and recently chickpeas. My daughter's friend CAN eat peanuts, but can't eat treenuts, sweetcorn, beans or pinenuts.

* a 'proper' food allergy is pretty alarming to watch. Typically, it's almost instantaneous, and involves rapid swelling of the tongue, lips and throat. In many people it's accompanied with constriction of the airways through asthma attack. Often accompanied by vomiting, it's a dangerous combination of symptoms. The self-indulgent, self-obsessed pretendy 'allergy sufferers' are indeed an annoying waste of space, but food allergy is a real and dangerous problem. Which is apparently on the increase along with the other allergies like asthma, eczema and hayfever.
 
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hibs1986 said:
The problem is the use of the word 'nut' as a generic term for a number of food items which aren't related. Peanuts are 'legumes', which are the 'pulses' family. Likewise pinenuts and coconuts are not nuts, but seeds. The word 'nut' is also used for tree nuts like hazelnut / almond etc...I think those ones are technically seeds too.

The connection isn't the term 'nut', but particular vegetable proteins. People who have proper* (as opposed to the imaginary ones that Wannabee mentioned) food allergies are often allergic to a number of other fruit and vegetable foodstuffs. I think peanuts, treenuts and various seeds are the most common.

My husband is allergic to peas, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, lentils and recently chickpeas. My daughter's friend CAN eat peanuts, but can't eat treenuts, sweetcorn, beans or pinenuts.

* a 'proper' food allergy is pretty alarming to watch. Typically, it's almost instantaneous, and involves rapid swelling of the tongue, lips and throat. In many people it's accompanied with constriction of the airways through asthma attack. Often accompanied by vomiting, it's a dangerous combination of symptoms. The self-indulgent, self-obsessed pretendy 'allergy sufferers' are indeed an annoying waste of space, but food allergy is a real and dangerous problem. Which is apparently on the increase along with the other allergies like asthma, eczema and hayfever.
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Right then.



What's the difference between a lentil and a chickpea?

:hmmm




















That's right.
Gary Locke wouldn't pay 50 to have a lentil on his face.
:bye
 
hibs1986 said:
The problem is the use of the word 'nut' as a generic term for a number of food items which aren't related. Peanuts are 'legumes', which are the 'pulses' family. Likewise pinenuts and coconuts are not nuts, but seeds. The word 'nut' is also used for tree nuts like hazelnut / almond etc...I think those ones are technically seeds too.

The connection isn't the term 'nut', but particular vegetable proteins. People who have proper* (as opposed to the imaginary ones that Wannabee mentioned)food allergies are often allergic to a few 'nut', fruit and vegetable foodstuffs. I think peanuts, treenuts and various seeds are the most common, and often occur together.

My husband is allergic to peas, peanuts, hazelnuts, almonds, lentils and recently chickpeas. My daughter's friend CAN eat peanuts, but can't eat treenuts, sweetcorn, beans or pinenuts.

* a 'proper' food allergy is pretty alarming to watch. Typically, it's almost instantaneous, and involves rapid swelling of the tongue, lips and throat. In many people it's accompanied with constriction of the airways through asthma attack. Often accompanied by vomiting, it's a dangerous combination of symptoms. The self-indulgent, self-obsessed pretendy 'allergy sufferers' are indeed an annoying waste of space, but food allergy is a real and dangerous problem. Which is apparently on the increase along with the other allergies like asthma, eczema and hayfever.
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I was on an Easyjet flight recently where they announced that because someone on board had a nut allergy nobody on board was allowed to eat any peanuts. I should have, then, pointed out that they should not be allowing any legumes either.
 
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