When using dietary avoidance to treat nut allergies, be sure that the patient can properly identify peanuts and tree nuts. In a recent study, persons aged 6 years and older were asked to identify ...

I know several people that say they have a "tree nut allergy." They are not as far as I know allergic to peanuts. Can that be a real thing or more specifically a *single* real thing? I know they ...

One recent late afternoon David and I drove up to the pipeline cut on the wooded hillside to look at the color changes of the trees. A lot of them have just now started to change but some were already ...

Even though they’re all found in the same aisle at the grocery store, there’s one key difference between tree nuts (which include almonds, walnuts, cashews, and pistachios, to name a few) and peanuts.

New tree nut reference materials provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help food producers better label products for potential allergens. The standards for almonds ...