Originally Posted by emma69

I read an interesting paper on this - it seems that African grown peanuts (the type you find in Europe pretty frequently) are less 'allergenic' than North American peanuts, thus, there are actually less instances because of that (v lawyers!) It is also the case that those with a 'peanut allergy' to North American peanuts, can sometimes consume African peanuts without ill consequence (not advisable to try outside of medical supervision tho, one assumes!)