Hi everyone:
We recently discovered that our 9 month old is peanut-allergic. As an avid cook who uses lots of natural and organic products, I have begun to evaluate different products and manufacturers, for obvious reasons. (I am breastfeeding, so the food avoidance is for myself as well.) In the past, I have used Bob's Red Mill products a lot. Unfortunately, when I wrote to ask them about nut allergies, they had this to say:
"I'm sorry but we do process a camper's snack mix that contains peanuts and we also process almonds, almond flour, and walnuts. So we can not guarantee against
cross contamination at this time. We are working on updating our labels right now to warn about peanuts and nuts in our mill and packaging facility. "
I thought people should know about this. Arrowhead Mills, another big natural/organic-type mill who sell lots of flour, cereals, grains, etc., also process nuts and cannot promise cross-contamination (I called them).
I did have luck with Hodgson Mills - they do not process any nuts at all and have a great variety of products for those interested in things like whole grains, cereals, flaxseed, etc. If anyone else knows of any other natural and/or organic manufacturers who are nut-free, please let me know.
On a completely different note, has anyone ever had a PA person have a reaction to sesame oil (without a sesame allergy)? In other words, has anyone ever heard of cross-contamination with sesame and peanut oils? I'm wondering because most manufacturers of peanut oil seem to produce sesame oil as well. I cook a lot with sesame oil and don't want my PA son to react.
Yogamom, welcome! [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]
I had a helluva time finding bulghar wheat here in the town I live in. I've been here for almost three years.
Actually, once I left Toronto, I had a helluva time finding bulghar wheat. I could find it in Toronto, boxed, in the grocery store, no problem.
At any rate, I'm fairly sure that the one I did find here in my town is Bob's. I'm Canadian and the labeling did look *good* IMHO and I have bought two or three bags of it and used it to make tabouli salad for the whole family (so my PA son did eat it).
What I didn't like about it and why I haven't bought it since, is they don't shell the husk part off the bulghar wheat so there's this extra fibre-y thing going on in your teeth that I don't really care for.
However, perhaps you've given me even more reason to avoid the stuff.
Best wishes! [img]http://uumor.pair.com/nutalle2/peanutallergy/smile.gif[/img]
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