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just buy some asian snacks... i've never seen an asian kid allergic to peanuts, when we first heard peanut allergy thought it was a skit

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They trade it for 5% infants with egg allergy https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pai.14211

fascinating findings between ultra processed food consumption.. Figure 1 is insane!

Or Israeli: Israel presents a unique experiment because you have people from different genetic populations from different parts of the world collecting in Israel(eg Sephardic jews from Spain, Ashkenazi from central Europe, Mizrahi from Asia, etc).

Something interesting is that peanut allergies in Israel are far lower than for Jews living in Spain, central europe, etc...

One of the most popular snacks in Israel? Bambas - peanut butter puffs.

Yeah our doctor specifically recommended Bambas. Babies love them and they sell them at Trader Joe's.

Adults love bamba too (speaking as an adult who ate two bags of it just yesterday)

My definitely Asian wife's definitely Asian first cousin is deathly allergic to peanuts.

and now I can direct people to you for Asian with peanut allergies lol... but yeah just saying incident rate is crazy low.. I probably know indirectly around 2000 Asian or so growing up in Asia till I was 10 never heard of anyone had peanut allergies.. seafood yes, but peanut would be considered borderline theatrical definitely not anaphylaxis styled

Asian born, perhaps. A sometime co-worker's son, both parents being Chinese, has a dangerous allergy to peanuts.

Survivorship bias?

AKA evolution

Not necessarily. How high is child mortality compared to the US?

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