Processing Foods without Peanuts and Tree Nuts

Achievements and Challenges in Improving the Nutritional Quality of Food Legumes

“…Peanut and soybean allergies are Downloaded by [West Virginia University] at 06:35 20 November 2014 particularly of concern because of the extensive consumption of these foods in various diets, with several different proteins identified as allergenic. For peanut, Ara h 1, Ara h 2 and Ara h 3 are recognized by sera from over 90% of peanut allergic patients and are classified as major allergens, whereas Ara h 4, Ara h 5, Ara h 6, Ara h 7 and Ara h 8 are classified as minor allergens due to their lower sensitizing rate among peanut allergic patients (Rajamohamed and Boye, 2010). Over seventeen allergenic proteins have been identified in soybeans, of which glycinin (11S), β-conglycinin (7S) and Gly m Bd 30K (also known as P34) are identified as major allergens (Boye et al, 2010b).…”