The Lemon Fool

kempiejon wrote:Of course peanuts are not nuts but legumes so perhaps the peanut butter made in a factory that makes other nut butters may well possibly contain nuts.

ReformedCharacter wrote:

kempiejon wrote:Of course peanuts are not nuts but legumes so perhaps the peanut butter made in a factory that makes other nut butters may well possibly contain nuts.

Maybe! But, neither are almonds, pistachios, cashews, brazils, pinenuts, or walnuts which are either fruit or drupes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-fil ... -nuts.html

I eat a lot of 'nuts' which probably explains a lot

RC

UncleEbenezer wrote:Well, I like all of 'em, regardless of the taxonomy.

But isn't the point of those labels something about allergies? And AIUI a peanut allergy is a nut allergy.

Peanut allergy is a type of food allergy to peanuts. It is different from tree nut allergies.

People with confirmed peanut allergy may have cross-reactivity to tree nut, soy, and other legumes, such as peas and lentils and lupinus. The cause of cross-reactivity results from similarity in the structures of storage proteins between the food sources. Allergenic proteins are grouped by protein families: cupins, prolamins, profilin and others. Peanuts and soybeans have proteins in the cupin, prolamin, and profilin families, while lentils contain cupin proteins.] Reviews of human clinical trials report that 6–40% of people with a confirmed peanut allergy will have allergic symptoms when challenged with tree nuts or legumes.