I remember my childhood days on a farm, working with dry hay. There was so much pollen that my nose was pitch-dark on the inside. Never had any allergies, thankfully.
Give babies peanut butter to cut peanut allergies, study says
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> This advice was never based on science. No, it was based on common sense. If X causes problems, not doing X is generally a good idea. It turns out that in this particular scenario, common sense was wrong. But allergies weren't understood by science, so all we had to go on was common sense.
Peanut allergies were exceptionally rare decades ago when nobody worried about peanut allergies in the first place. In the 20th century everybody in America sent their kids to school with peanut butter sandwiches and virtually everybody was fine. I didn't even know people could be allergic to peanuts until I was an adult. Now schools ban peanut butter sandwiches and it seems like every other family claims their child…
This history seemed dubious, so I looked up a random 1989 allergy journal: "Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies and probably the most common cause of death by food anaphylaxis in the United States."
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Allergy_Proceedings/ecU...
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For anyone wondering, Trader Joe's sells these in the US! They're great, and they're "real" Bamba and not a TJ's replica.
they are also somehow cheaper here than in Israel and it is infuriating to me
I know! $1.30?? Some crazy subsidy magic is happening at TJs
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If you can't find Bamba but you have European or Balkan shop nearby you can try buying Smoki [1], it's the same thing. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=smoki&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiE...
Looks like it's what's called Erdnussflips in Germany
Aldi sometimes sells these here in the us. They're similar to Bamba, but not as fluffy. It's a coarser-ground corn, I think. e.g. https://aldithings.com/deutsche-kuche-peanut-puffs/
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The problem with honey is that it can cause botulism. Infants under 1 are most susceptible.
Honey is usually sold pasteurized though so botulism wouldn't be an issue. Just don't go for the fancy natural/raw stuff.
It absolutely is an issue for children. The botulism toxin can be destroyed with heat, but the spores are significantly more resistant to it. And as the WHO explains, it's the spores that are the root of the problem for children:
"Infant botulism occurs mostly in infants under 6 months of age. Different from foodborne botulism caused by ingestion of pre-formed toxins in food, it occurs when infants ingest C. botulinum spores, which germinate into bacteria that colonize in the gut and release toxins. In most adults and children older than about 6 months, this would not happen because natural defences in intestines that develop over time prevent germination and growth of the bacterium."
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Trader Joes (and Costco) are just fine selling branded product if they can get a deal for it cheap enough. It's usually the manufacturer that doesn't want to "cheapen their brand" to hit the price points, but they're willing to "bulk up" for Costco or sell direct to Trader Joes at times.
Also a lot of things at Trader Joes are just white labeled versions of other products. As in, literally the same product, just inside packaging that says "Trader Joe's "
Yeah, at a job I worked at before there were two differences between our branded product and the store brand: The packaging/label, and the amount of thickener so that it would have a slightly different texture. Otherwise, same employees making it on the same machines with the same ingredients.
They did always have that one small change in there though, so that it wouldn't be exactly the same. Nothing you'd ever notice as a customer. Just a technicality so that each one could claim their own unique formula.
I think with another type of product it wasn't the thickness but a slight difference in the ratio of the flavorings - more raspberry and less blueberry here, more blueberry and less raspberry there.
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#338Buy some Bamba and feed it to your kids early on...
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Not sure how widespread this advice is, but my son’s pediatrician had us start introducing peanut butter before he was eating solids by adding progressively more peanut butter to his bottle. So it feels like this is becoming the recommended approach to avoiding food allergies.
Essentially illegal in the US though, given school requirements.
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#340From the evidence I've seen exposure to allergens need to happen the right way. Eat it and the body learns that it is safe. But if it gets somewhere it shouldn't like the bloodstream, the body gets suspicious that it's a pathogen.