Modified Food for Allergy: Could Peanut Allergies Be Relieved By "Franken-Peanuts?"

By Sloane Miller, Health Guide Sunday, April 06, 2008

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This is Part One of a weekly, 3-Part Series on Modified Foods For Food Allergies. Part Two is about fermenting soy to reduce allergens. Part Three is about modifying eggs to reduce allergic reactions. Would you eat a peanut stripped of all that makes it a peanut - including the pro...

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riian

5/ 1/08 10:55am

I am someone who has been allergic to peanuts for 30+ years, and although I truly applaud the work that these scientists are doing, there is no way that I would eat a peanut even if it had none of the proteins responsible for my allergy. Why? Plain and simple, the flavor. I have trained myself over the past 3 decades to have a knee jerk reaction to anything that tastes like peanut, it is my first clue that I've made a very serious mistake and now my life is in danger. I really cannot see being able to separate myself from that. Even if there was no danger of a reaction I know that my body would produce symptoms similar to a real reaction. So for me, no peanuts, ever.

Sloane Miller, Health Guide

5/ 1/08 10:59am

yes! i think you've voiced a very common line of thinking. anyone who has an allergy has done what you have done, trained themselves in that way. so they wouldn't go near a peanut.

which begs the question: who would this fraken-peanut be for? who's going to eat it?

thanks again for your comment...

Modified Food for Allergy: Could Peanut Allergies Be Relieved By "Franken-Peanuts?"

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