Peanut/tree nut allergy is common and has been associated with particularly severe
reactions. Epidemiological data have shown that the prevalence ranges between 0.05% and …

Consumption of tree nuts and peanuts has considerably increased over the last decades
due to their nutritional composition and the content of beneficial compounds. On the other …

Background Allergenicity of foods can be influenced by processing. Tree nuts are an
important source of nutrition and increasingly consumed; however, processing methods are …

Consumers are becoming vegan, vegetarian, or flexitarian due to the factors such as a
healthy lifestyle, and growing environmental concerns. Circumstances like this have …

Food regulations require that tree nuts and derived ingredients are included on food labels
in order to help individuals with IgE-mediated allergies to avoid them. However, there is no …

Nuts are a well-defined cause of food allergy, which affect approximately 1% of the general
population in the UK and the USA. There do appear to be differences in the frequency of nut …

Cashew plant (Anacardium occidentale L.) is the most relevant species of the Anacardium
genus. It presents high economic value since it is widely used in human nutrition and in …

Food-induced allergies are defined as adverse health reactions arising from a specific
immune response that occurs reproducibly on exposure to a given food. In the past years …

Peanut and tree nut allergies have become a public health problem over the last 2 decades.
The diagnostic procedure relies on a suggestive history, as well as on evidence of …

Tree nuts are a powerful and common source of food allergens that induce IgE-mediated
allergic reactions. Health authorities endorse the intake of tree nuts because they are …