Pine Nuts- Do you avoid them if allergic to tree nuts?

[penelope]

Hi All,
We've been avoiding pine nuts forever.  DS is allergic to peanuts and tree nuts.  We tried to test for pine nut allergy the last time we did blood work but the lab made an error.

Is pine nut allergy common or is it nothing to worry about since technically it's a seed and not a nut? 

[maeve]

We avoid pine nuts.

[GingerPye]

I've read that pine nuts are not a nut, and so don't fall under the category of tree nuts.  But we don't eat them here at our house. 

Words with nut-anything scare me, lol. 

[CMdeux]

Yes, even though they are (nominally) seeds, they suffer from extremely high rates of both cross-reactivity (with other tree nuts) and cross-contamination, which of course makes them high risk in the same way that, say, bakery items or ice-cream are high risk.

HTH.  We avoid them too.

[Mfamom]

we've avoided them because my ds would not eat anything called "a Nut".  I thought they are seeds too. 

[nameless]

they are seeds, but have a high cross-reactivity if the person is allergic to both almonds and peanuts...but that doesn't mean the person is allergic. It's one of those things to test for if you can. This was from some research I found ages ago...but you can probably Google and find something more recent or the info I had found.

Adrienne

[momma2boys]

My ds is pa but also highly allergic to sesame, so I am wary of other seeds.  We avoid them also.

[PurpleCat]

Yes, we avoid them.  In addition to peanuts and all tree nuts,  DD is also allergic to sesame.  Not likely they'd agree with her!

[Macabre]

DS is not allergic to pine nuts.   He is only allergic to peanuts (he eats almonds and other treenuts if we can guarantee they are pf).  But we haven't found store bought pinenuts that are pf. So he's never had a pine nut. Not yet.

We do have an "other safe nuts" thread where we've posted about places to find pf nuts and seeds.  There are a few places for pine nuts mentioned in that thread.  We just didn't get any this year, and they are pretty seasonal in the US.

Oh--fwiw, most pinenuts are processed in Russia and China.  So by "safe" I mean sources in the US that I can call and verify their practices for.

[hedgehog]

DS is not allergic to pine nuts, and has had them in the past, but not recently.  THe pesto I use used to contain pine nuts, but no longer does.  And that is really the only pine nuts we ever had on a regular basis in my house.

[AllergyMum]

We do not avoid things that we are not allergic to.  However, when trying new things we only do it at home on days when we have time if things go wrong. 

[Elliana]

We avoid pine nuts.  Our labs show allergy to most tree nuts as well as peanuts.

Elle

[ajasfolks2]

We avoid due to cross-contamination.

Now that China is main supplier, we would avoid those anyway (our family does best to eat NOTHING from China).

However, we did order some in-the-shell pinenuts from US supplier who sources them locally & that are not X-contam.  We have yet to consume them. 

[ajasfolks2]

Link to discussion in PN/TN board with some sources for non-Xcontam pinenuts, for anyone who might be interested in this thread.


Sources for nuts (peanut-free, treenut-free, etc.)

[becca]

We also avoid them.  Dd tests pos for peanuts and some tree nuts, but neg for almond.  She does eat sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds.  I worry about the cross contamination, and, I guess, because the name makes me nervous!