Avoid foods & products that contain NUT or TREE NUT or any of these ingredients:
Tree nuts are sometimes found in the following:
Please discuss with your board certified allergist the following information:
Source: FARE http://www.foodallergy.org/document.doc?id=133
- almond
- artificial nuts
- beechnut
- Brazil nut
- butternut
- cashew
- chestnut
- chinquapin nut
- coconut
- filbert/hazelnut
- gianduja (a chocolate-nut mixture)
- ginkgo nut
- hickory nut
- litchi/lichee/lychee nut
- macadamia nut
- marzipan/almond paste
- Nangai nut
- natural nut extract (e.g., almond, walnut)
- nut butters (e.g., cashew butter)
- nut meal
- nut meat
- nut paste (e.g., almond paste)
- nut pieces
- pecan
- pesto
- pili nut
- pine nut (also referred to as Indian, pignoli, pigñolia, pignon, piñon, and pinyon nut)
- pistachio
- praline
- shea nut
- walnut
Tree nuts are sometimes found in the following:
- black walnut hull extract (flavoring)
- natural nut extract
- nut distillates/alcoholic extracts
- nut oils (e.g., walnut oil, almond oil)
- walnut hull extract (flavoring)
Please discuss with your board certified allergist the following information:
- Mortadella may contain pistachios.
- There is no evidence that coconut oil and shea nut oil/butter are allergenic.
- Many experts advise patients allergic to tree nuts to avoid peanuts as well.
- Coconut, the seed of a drupaceous fruit (Drupe), has typically not been restricted in the diets of people with tree nut allergy.
- In October of 2006, the FDA began identifying coconut as a tree nut for labeling purposes.
- Medical literature documents a small number of allergic reactions to coconut; most occurred in people who were not allergic to other tree nuts. Ask your doctor if you need to avoid coconut.
- Other nuts that may be missing from this list.
Source: FARE http://www.foodallergy.org/document.doc?id=133
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