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forgotoldacc ◴[] No.45652698[source]
There was a period of a few decades (I guess still ongoing, really) where parents sheltered their kids from everything. Playing in the dirt, peanuts, other allergens. It seems like all it's done is make people more vulnerable as adults. People assume babies are super fragile and delicate, and in many ways they are, but they also bounce back quickly.

Maybe part of it is a consequence of the risks of honey, which can actually spawn camp infants with botulism. But it seems that fear spread to everything.

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bawolff ◴[] No.45652805[source]
That kind of assumes they are sheltering kids, but to be honest peanuts aren't really that common a food, certainly not in foods you would commonly give a four month year old child.
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WillPostForFood ◴[] No.45652923[source]
Peanut butter?
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SideburnsOfDoom ◴[] No.45653260[source]
Peanut Butter is not a very common food, except in the USA.
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1. dragonwriter ◴[] No.45653498[source]
A big reason that the effect of avoidance was hypothesized and the studied and nailed down is because (even when avoidance became common in the US), peanut-contain snacks were (presumably, still are, it wasn't that long ago) a very common food for very young kids in Israel.
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2. SideburnsOfDoom ◴[] No.45653526[source]
Yes, there are some counterexamples. Bamba (peanut-butter-flavored puffed maize) in Israel is one, worth studying as it is commonly given to very young kids.

But generally speaking, the USA is an outlier on the prevalence of Peanut Butter specifically, and to a lesser extent peanuts in general.

3. jdietrich ◴[] No.45653953[source]
The popularity of the Bamba peanut snack has a huge impact on peanut allergies - plausibly a 10x reduction when comparing similar populations.

https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(08)01698-9/ful...