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Introducing peanut early to infants

In the body: For babies at high risk of food allergy (eczema, or a parent or sibling with allergies), giving peanut from about six months lowers the chance of a peanut allergy.

Advice, not a hazard: this page is about something that lowers a risk. It sits among the hazards beside peanut allergy, the risk it lowers.

Not rated by dose: a flag on 2 reviewed foods, among them roasted peanuts and Peanut butter, smooth. The list below has a line for each of 3 preparations.

Pregnancy, babies and young children. Stricter agency advice for these stages of life. Gram figures elsewhere on this site count a 70 kg adult, unadjusted for pregnancy, babies or young children; the advice here is the agency’s own for them.

See also: Peanut allergy

All hazards

The reference value and where it comes from

Reviewed foods that carry it

2 reviewed foods carry it; none is rated by dose. A food counts once, as in the foods list: preparations sharing a page (raw and cooked, canned) count once; one with its own page counts apart. Below, one line for each of 3 preparations.

How often you can eat it

No food here is rated by dose. Each line says why it’s listed: a flag for the people the source names, advice on handling it, or context.

Flags and context, not rated by dose

Sources