The other day I ate a plate of fries at a restaurant. The staff swears they use peanut oil to fry everything. I am strongly allergic to peanuts. Nothing happened.
I, too, am emergency-room-visiting, epipen-carrying-allergic to peanuts.
It's hypothesized that peanut oil is (generally) not an allergen. This is because the part of peanuts which people are allergic to is peanut protein, and the refining process for making peanut oil requires heating the nuts up to a point which burns away the protein.
Caveats: cold-pressed peanut oil is still totally poisonous, and not all peanut oil was refined very well, so I still give it wide berth when I'm aware of it. But I do think this probably explains your french-fry mystery.
I'm curious: Did you know before you ate them that they were fried in peanut oil? If so, why did you eat them? On the other hand, if you did not know,and this led to your eating all of the fries, what caused you to suddenly learn they were peanut-oil-ized? a reaction? But you say no. I think you must have decided to try one. Having survived you decided to continue pushing your luck. It kind of reminds me of your (non) reaction to honey nut cheerios!
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It's hypothesized that peanut oil is (generally) not an allergen. This is because the part of peanuts which people are allergic to is peanut protein, and the refining process for making peanut oil requires heating the nuts up to a point which burns away the protein.
Caveats: cold-pressed peanut oil is still totally poisonous, and not all peanut oil was refined very well, so I still give it wide berth when I'm aware of it. But I do think this probably explains your french-fry mystery.
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On the other hand, if you did not know,and this led to your eating all of the fries, what caused you to suddenly learn they were peanut-oil-ized? a reaction? But you say no.
I think you must have decided to try one. Having survived you decided to continue pushing your luck.
It kind of reminds me of your (non) reaction to honey nut cheerios!
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